Accompanied by Attorney General Bill Barr, Trump signed an order requesting new regulations under segment 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 that would eliminate legal liability protections and federal investment for corporations of generation involved in censorship and political conduct.
TRUMP SIGNS SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE ORDER CALLING FOR REMOVING LIABILITY PROTECTIONS IN THE EVENT OF ‘CENSORSHIP’
The president’s order came two days after Twitter took the unprecedented resolution of placing a “misleading” precautionary tag on two of his tweets about the dangers of mail fraud across the country.
That resolution without delay failed, and experts claimed trump’s tweet was in fact misleading because the mail vote was related to ongoing fraud.In addition, Twitter’s own data verification contained false statements; and Twitter did not apply the popular review to other users.
At Thursday’s signing ceremony, Trump called fact-checking “cheeky” and showed a photo of Twitter executive Yoel Roth, who leads the fact-checking and rule-making operation on the site.Fox News reported Wednesday that Roth mocked Trump supporters: he called Trump’s team “CURRENT NAZIS,” criticized “scary transsexuals” in New York, and called the Republican majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, a “bag of farts.”.”)
“My decree requires new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act so that social media corporations that censor any political conduct cannot cover their coverage of responsibility,” the president said.
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Harf said Trump’s action is “not legal, but it’s political.”
“This is your kind of political action. It’s a grievance policy,” Harf concluded.
Co-host Lawrence Jones responded to Harf, saying the Twitter project “share data and content without barriers.”
“It’s a new obstacle,” he said Jones.Se commit to being the only ones between the author of the content and the other people they want to reach.”
Jones added that Trump’s order was not intended to close Twitter, but to raise awareness of a “big problem.”
“I, as a curator, think it’s a personal enterprise. They can do whatever they want,” Jones said.But I think it’s a bad commercial practice to violate your project statement.”