Thursday, May 28, 2020

White House To Empower The FCC To Regulate Social Media Companies


Zero Hedge: "Big Day For Fairness" - White House Plans To Empower FCC To Regulate American Social Media Giants

Update (0850ET): Fox Business has just confirmed that President Trump plans to sign an executive order to implement everything we've discussed below.

Fox reporter Edward Lawrence claims that the order will "examine the legal protections" enjoyed by these companies, suggesting that the administration will also lay out its legal rationale for regulating speech on these platforms in this way.

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WNU Editor: This will be the crux of the executive order .... The guidelines will make clear what social media companies can do while retaining the 'liability shield', while also warning how they might lose that protection by being too proactive.

No surprises. My prediction from yesterday still holds.

Update: Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg is taking the side of President Trump .... Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-checking political speech (CNBC). More here .... "Internet Platforms Aren't Arbiters Of Truth" - Zuckerberg Blasts Twitter For Tagging Trump Tweets As "Misinformation" (Zero Hedge).

Update #2: Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg's above remarks are right. Twitter crossed a line when it decided to be the arbiter on what is right or wrong on its platform. It is no longer providing a platform for content, it is deciding what content is valid, and it is doing it by providing its own content to prove its point.
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8 comments:

  1. Stephen DavenportMay 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM

    YouTube is somewhat doing the same thing, in that it removes things it regards as "false". Case in point it removes videos that show a differing opinion on the China Virus from theirs. This is a dangerous thing to do.

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  2. DinoB325May 28, 2020 at 12:31 PM

    Twitter fact checks the President but not the Chinese Communist Party?? SMH

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  3. RussInSoCalMay 28, 2020 at 12:39 PM

    LOL - https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-furious-after-twitter-retroactively-tags-tweets-top-officials

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  4. AnonymousMay 28, 2020 at 2:21 PM

    Trump’s executive order against Twitter is probably going to be toothless
    rules of the game: citing zero hedge is about as silly as one can get

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  5. RussInSoCalMay 28, 2020 at 4:33 PM

    2:21 PM

    So you "see" my zero hedge and you raise me a Vox? Really?

    LMFAO!

    The zero hedge article actually happens to be true while Vox is 100% leftist political masturbation.


    https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

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  6. AnonymousMay 28, 2020 at 4:35 PM

    do you know anything about Hedge ?

    "Finance blog Zero Hedge was banned from Twitter for Wuhan coronavirus misinformation. It's not the first time the publication has raised eyebrows."just the place for dummies

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  7. RussInSoCalMay 28, 2020 at 4:43 PM

    Go look at the twitter feed, dude. And if you think I care that zero hedge was banned from twitter you'd be mistaken.

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  8. AnonymousMay 28, 2020 at 5:14 PM

    OCRUMBOGATE.

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