Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
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#2The biggest takeaway, looking past the headline:
“This week a federal appeals court, ruling in a case brought by conservative activists against social media companies, affirmed that private websites are not public spaces and social media companies don't have First Amendment obligations.
Any truly strong limits to Section 230 would almost certainly require action by Congress.”
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#3Without any attempt to weigh in on political sides, this debate made me think of an interesting "hack" to act as a publisher while enjoying the protections of a platform:
1. Start a website where users are able to write arbitrary articles.
2. Have a bot systematically spam your site with all possible articles (suitably limited so as to make this technically doable).
3. Systematically weed out all the articles which are NOT equal to the articles you actually wanted to publish.
Voila, now you've published all and only the articles you wanted, and yet you're just an innocent platform, not a publisher!
If your site is sufficiently widely used, you can even cut out step 2 and replace it with organic human beings.
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#4All because Twitter dared to fact check him.
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#5Another source with some remarks from a Democrat FCC commissioner: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/28/trump-s...
Re: Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
#6Seems counter productive to the President's intent. If platforms can be held liable for user posts, that will give them a strong incentive to remove anything at all that might even come close to giving them legal liability. So sure, maybe changing the law (or asking the FCC to reinterpret its strictures) would "get back" at the companies President Trump thinks are doing something wrong to him, but the net results would be severe limitations on what he could say on all platforms.
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Re: Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
#8Without any attempt to weigh in on political sides, this debate made me think of an interesting "hack" to act as a publisher while enjoying the protections of a platform: 1. Start a website where users are able to write arbitrary articles. 2. Have a bot systematically spam your site with all possible articles (suitably limited so as to make this technically doable). 3. Systematically weed out all the articles which a…
The law isn't really hackable in the same way a machine is, because the law isn't interpreted by a machine, it is interpreted by a court, which would take all of the above into account when applying the law.
Re: Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
#9Some days I just have trouble getting out of bed, he is over 70 years old I'm just fascinated with his agile work and energy to fight anything that comes against him. His choices are debatable abut That is definitely some form of leadership.
Re: Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
#10> "Currently, social media giants like Twitter received unprecedented viability shield based on the theory that they are a neutral platform, which they are not," Trump said in the Oval Office. "We are fed up with it. It is unfair, and it's been very unfair."
What examples of this unfairness are being referred to? I never understand why journalist don't press harder and follow up with obvious questions. Same with "many people are saying" style statements.