Rule #3 : Institutions will not save you .
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Surely by making social media platforms liable for what their users post makes instantly banning Drumpf the only option for Twitter. You can’t risk some idiot posting that you should drink bleach or take unapproved medications.
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I’ve seen 1 or 2 headlines about passing 100,000 deaths related to Covid-19 this morning, and about 10 related to Trump’s social media tantrum. I think someone has thought this through.
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This is funny…apparently Fucker Carlson seems to think that 1) Twitter adding a “this is misleading” tag to a tweet is somehow silencing someone and that 2) doing this to Nostradumbass is the first time Twitter has done this.
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really the words “yet another, unenforceable” need to precede the words executive order at all times
obama used executive orders to stop enforcing don’t ask don’t tell by not fighting challenges in court, that works because he controls the entire chain there
pretending to tell hundreds of social media companies how to behave is just more “Trump The Tyrant”
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The FTC has been so stripped down and defanged by the pro-corporate Trump Administration that it lacks the resources to do particularly much. They can barely do their job as it is. Twitter has more money and ability to bring experienced lawyers to bear.
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We do not speak of such matters…
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Well, I’d actually agree with that first part.
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I’m rather optimistic. Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a step up.
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IANAL, so if Twitter went ahead and suspended Trump’s account due to a court case, how we would he get them to un-suspend it via legal action as quickly as possible?
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The Supreme Court is just like a regular court - only with sour cream.
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Well, that’s one way to describe Brett Cavanaugh.
(I am kidding. That does an extreme disservice to sour cream).
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I don’t think this word means what the WH thinks it means.
That doesn’t stop them, of course. We’re all playing by their rules.
One could think the only checks they know are the once they cash in, and the only balances they know are the one of their bank accounts.
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For those who aren’t aware… I’ll use this to expand… it’s not, of course, like other courts. They rule only on constitutional matters, and what they say can shape our system of laws, for good or ill, for decades, and that can be everything from decisions like Dred Scott or Plessy, to Brown and Roe.
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Tragically unAmerican. Trump insists he has the freedom to be the world record U S Presidential serial liar in U S History but we don’t have the freedom to point out that unfortunate TRUTH. This ain’t China or Russia Don the Con.
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way to bite the hand that you don’t realize feeds you
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Did they think this through? The safest thing for social media platforms to do in response is, instead of putting a fact-checking label on lies, they would just ban the user. That’s very much in their TOCs and would be the safer legal approach to someone spreading lies than just letting people post whatever they want. While I don’t go over Twitter and FB TOCs with a fine-toothed comb, I know that they both have terms in there stating, essentially, “hey, we can kick off any user at any time whenever we feel like it.”
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This op-ed suggests that Trump’s account and its tweets should remain on Twitter, arguing that it displays his idiocy for the world to see.
I would argue that shining sunlight on Trump’s idiocy is the best disinfectant. Let the public witness him in his full glory and make its own judgment about whether he deserves a second term.
There’s been sunlight shining on him since before, and including, his utter-bullshit birtherism claims, and last I checked, it didn’t seem to have hurt his chances for a first term.
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I saw that piece and it reminded me of this quote from Leonard Wibberly:
Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.
Sunlight may, ultimately, be the best medicine for the cancer that is Donald Trump. In the short term though, he is spreading a massive amount of misinformation and bigotry and doing tremendous damage. We can’t wait for the sunlight to do its work. The cancer must be cut out.
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In the meantime I’d penned a response to the Post, pretty much what I wrote above plus a little extra that’s similar to what you asked about how long we should give it (“pehaps by his third term?”). Like the big guy says, we’ll see what happens.
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