Trump to sign executive order on social-media companies on Thursday
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Source: MarketWatch
President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on social-media companies Thursday, escalating his war on Twitter Inc., although it remains unclear what it will entail.
A White House spokesperson confirmed the order late Wednesday, a day after Twitter TWTR, -2.76% issued its first fact-checking warning label to some of his tweets.
In a series of tweets Wednesday, Trump threatened to regulate or even close social-media platforms. Legal experts scoffed at the presidents ability to moderate f social-media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook Inc. FB, -1.31% and Snap Inc. SNAP, -2.35% .
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Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-on-thursday-2020-05-27?mod=newsviewer_click
What are your thoughts? First Twitter....then all of media? What?
still_one
(91,967 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Did he not break international law re: asylum seekers and locking babies in cages?
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Most of the policies he says he will enact fail to happen. And theres literally nothing he can do here.
The Mouth
(3,124 posts)still_one
(91,967 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)With the failed impeachment trial.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Their 'selfishness' is about to bite them in the ass.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)because he was great for business.
jimfields33
(15,475 posts)Bitter old fool that he is.
bucolic_frolic
(42,680 posts)Alien and Sedition Acts pretty much dispensed with this kind of nonsense.
Alien and Sedition Acts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.[1][nb 1] They made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen (Naturalization Act), allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous ("An Act Concerning Aliens", also known as the Alien Friends Act of 1798)[2] or who were from a hostile nation (Alien Enemy Act of 1798),[3] and criminalized making false statements that were critical of the federal government (Sedition Act of 1798).[4] The Alien Friends Act expired two years after its passage, and the Sedition Act expired on 3 March 1801, while the Naturalization Act and Alien Enemies Act had no expiration clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
The Mouth
(3,124 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)Sounds good to me.
Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
Come on Don, do it...
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dware
(12,094 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)dware
(12,094 posts)FCC has no authority over them, so Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc, wouldn't be affected by it in any way.
Jim__
(14,045 posts)Does Trump have any understanding of anything?
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Also to use a Sharpie.
He wins by picking fights, because he drags his opponents into the muck with him. You can't stay clean wrestling with a pig. It's been his MO his entire life.
"They delight in acting in bad faith, since the seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."
-JP Sartre
herding cats
(19,549 posts)That's my first thought. Second thought is its unconstitutional and will never happen.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)herding cats
(19,549 posts)Bad day in Trumpland: Trump aides generate something completely inflammatory and toss it at the wall to see if it sticks... Wait to see if people bite. Grin if it works.
This has zero teeth and isn't worth a moment of our time beyond our initial eye roll and obligatory groan. All circus no bread.
marble falls
(56,371 posts)stopbush
(24,378 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)include privately owned media, and I don't believe courts will allow him that war power to inhibit Americans' ability to use it just because he's mad about being factually called out as a liar.
Jack Dorsey will fight him.
Then there's Zuckerberg, who'll likely turn on MF45.
This stupid poser prez is managing to not only alienate social media platforms, but
1) eliminate a few channels that Russian troll farms use to support his messaging, and
2) shut down his own national voice.
I can't wait to find out what his executive order says.
Social platform owners will likely not only win this battle, but publicly denounce MF45's lousy business sense.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Meh
Girard442
(6,059 posts)...to be released when Twitter agrees to his terms. Who, exactly, would move to stop him? California HP? San Francisco PD? Or would the marshals refuse?
dware
(12,094 posts)Nobody is going to be arrested for this blatantly illegal EO.
This is the Mango Menace just being an asshole and trying to detract from his failures being called out.
Terry_M
(745 posts)the president of the US is still a lying worthless sack of shit and at least 50 million people will vote for him in November despite.
Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
Twitter should just throw him out on his ass!
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ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Surprised it took him this long.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,371 posts)He can say what he wants, but how can Trump enforce it?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)because social media platforms are going to haul his butt into court so fast it'll burn.
I just hope they all keep needling him.
I just wonder if he has any clue in the world about how much more money they have than he pretends to have.
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,680 posts)I think this will be an order to forbid blocking anyone from posting pro-Trump messaging, and to enable lawsuits against critics. That's what they usually do, isn't it? Bleed you financially in the court system?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Bless his little idiot heart... he actually thinks he's relevant to literate Americans.
On edit: if the idiot actually does what my guess is he'll do (EO banning all members of the Executive Branch from using Twitter as he himself quits the platform in a melodramatic fit of petulance and pique), then he just rolled over and showed his belly to the voters whether he realize that or not, giving Biden the election on a silver platter.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)one thing after another for 3 effing years, with a pandemic on top. It goes on, and on
mobeau69
(11,079 posts)Salviati
(6,002 posts)What a fucking snowflake.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)What's a guy gonna do when he can't sleep from all the drugs and needs to vent and rage? This is laughable.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)Aussie105
(5,215 posts)1. Declaring Trump's contributions and responses to those as undesirable and disruptive to their business model?
2. Declaring external influences, non factual information and other propaganda posts as being undesirable?
There may well be escalation of response to Trump's threats by both Facebook and Twitter along the lines of having his future posts rejected, and having past posts and responses severely edited or deleted altogether.
Use of the social media platforms was originally never considered to be tools for lies and propaganda aimed at destabilizing American society.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)And they could have signed an executive order mandating balanced political views on the radio because of the limited broadcast spectrum, but that would have been met with howls of protests.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)That 1 idiot a$$-ki$$er claiming she's a PhD... but knows barely anything in particular.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Do you know how much fun its going to be watching the hard right attempt to defend President Massengill as he attempts to interfere with the freedom of speech and business practices of successful private industry?
JudyM
(29,122 posts)Important news of national interest hasnt actually happened the article says the substance is unknown. This will be news for LBN when its substance is revealed. Till then, its best posted in GD.