I’m really hoping for an Anti-Streisand effect here.
Please. Just once.
I intentionally used the video with that cut for that reason
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Thank you for that. I love when people feel smarter for having read something. ( a feeling that has become disturbingly rarer and rarer.)
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Reuters got a look at the draft of the executive order, see below.
“The executive order would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose and clarify regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law largely exempting online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post. Such changes could expose tech companies to more lawsuits.
The order asks the FCC to examine whether actions related to the editing of content by social media companies should potentially lead to the platform forfeiting its protections under section 230.
It requires the agency to look at whether a social media platform uses deceptive policies to moderate content and if its policies are inconsistent with its terms of service.
The draft order also states that the White House Office of Digital Strategy will re-establish a tool to help citizens report cases of online censorship.
Called the White House Tech Bias Reporting Tool, it will collect complaints of online censorship and submit them to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
It requires the FTC to then “consider taking action”, look into whether complaints violate the law, develop a report describing such complaints and make the report publicly available.
The draft order also requires the Attorney General to establish a working group including state attorneys general that will examine the enforcement of state laws that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair and deceptive acts.
The working group will also monitor or create watch-lists of users based on their interactions with content or other users.
Federal spending on online advertising will also be reviewed by U.S. government agencies to ensure there are no speech restrictions by the relevant platform.
It requires the head of each agency to report its findings to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, within 30 days of the date of this order.”
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Executive ordure?
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…like not holding their most prominent user to the same standards as everyone else?
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Oddly enough, I haven’t seen Modus here. LGM, yes, but not here.
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Twitter needs to delete his account. He has violated their terms of use for years now, using his tweets to make personal attacks and threats. Losing his place to throw Twitter Tantrums might actually kill him.
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Important to note: if this happens, this BBS is fucked. This disallows all content moderation that doesn’t support him and his own.
And they will come for BB. Shutting down comments entirely will be the only recourse.
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TL:DR version of the below…
“In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the speech that Americans may access and convey online,” the draft order says. “This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic. When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power.”
The issue with using this angle is it would invalidate any TOS for anything. This will never be enforceable.
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Liked for use of “wacklefucks” 
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edited post to remove - inappropriate.
Move the servers offshore?
Could Twatter et al delist from US stock markets and relist in London?
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“if this happens” - an executive order cannot change the law. As you can see from the order, Trump is very upset about an existing law that allows platforms to police objectionable content. He is pretending that he can do something about it in the order, but that entire section is clearly just a gripe that he doesn’t like that law. As long as we keep at least one house of Congress in democratic control, this cannot happen.
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I would have thought that somewhere like Iceland would make more sense. Their HQ would be in Luxembourg, for obvious reasons.
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The scariest part is that the draft EO has a watch list provision for private users. Since when did blocking someone online, subtweeting, and dunking constitute a violation of human rights? This rotten orange has some weird beliefs I tell you.
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Credit where due:
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They may move the brass plate to Luxembourg (or Ireland perhaps) or maybe the Cayman Islands or some other bras plate haven, to stay more out of the EU’s reach, but from a stock listing/trading point of view Iceland will probably not cut it. Needs to be one of the major global exchanges; London Stock Exchange, or maybe Frankfurt or Paris - or maybe Hong Kong, but that’s not looking too safe right now.
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It would be such a shame if Trump was so pissed off at Twitter that he stopped using it altogether
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Honestly, what’s the worst that can happen? It’s not like our system of checks and balances has been fundamentally broken while we have an authoritarian and reactionary executive paired with a subservient Senate unwilling to exercise oversight authority and a Supreme Court that values the appearance of staying “above” politics more than checking overreach, right?
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