{"id":35323,"date":"2020-05-30T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=35323"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T15:43:08","slug":"facebook-twitter-google-slam-trump-order-seeks-prevent-restricting-rw-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/facebook-twitter-google-slam-trump-order-seeks-prevent-restricting-rw-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter And Google Slam Trump Order That Seeks To Prevent Them From Restricting RW Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">In a first of such moves by a politician, the US president Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that decrees a number of changes in how major social media platforms &#8211; mainly Twitter, Facebook and Youtube police and restrict certain content posted on their platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The official order that was shared by Trump himself on Twitter seeks\u00a0to hold tech companies responsible for only being publishers, and limit their role in censoring content &#8211; especially of a political nature that goes against their own political leanings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Today, I am signing an Executive Order to protect and uphold the free speech and rights of the American people.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/agTIJ2KR6C\">pic.twitter.com\/agTIJ2KR6C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1266106020205662212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;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 on the internet.\u00a0 This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic.\u00a0 When large, powerful social media companies censor opinions with which they disagree, they exercise a dangerous power.\u00a0 They cease functioning as passive bulletin boards, and ought to be viewed and treated as content creators.&#8221; the <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><a style=\"color: #33cccc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Order<\/a><\/span> begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">To put things in perspective, Trump has often spoken out against the Silicon Valley giants as being biased towards a leftist propaganda and often accused them of censoring conservative voices\u2014 charges these companies deny but Conservative internet users press against the them. Trump&#8217;s executive order seeks to redefine the scope of section 230 of US&#8217; constitution &#8211; considered the bedrock of the internet &#8211; the law\u00a0that protects tech companies from being sued over what users post.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Order seeks to strip the tech companies of the immunity they enjoy in being sued for policing or manipulating the content they allow on their platforms.\u00a0 The Order also calls into questioning the\u00a0<\/span>ad spending by government agencies on platforms \u201cthat violate free speech principles.\u00a0The order says complaints submitted to a White House bias-reporting form will be forwarded to the FTC and the Justice Department. And it calls for a working group to create model state legislation on \u201cunfair or deceptive\u201d practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Trump&#8217;s executive order comes quick on the heels of when Twitter added fact-checking links to two of Trump&#8217;s recent tweets about fraudulent voting, implying they were lies. Twitter later\u00a0<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><a style=\"color: #33cccc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/28\/technology\/trump-twitter-fact-check.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click.thehustle.co\/mps2\/c\/IAE\/3U0qAA\/t.326\/AKsPPQtpRFqe6S0_wenV_g\/h6\/wnKVMwY0-2BahHDznx2XoybdZW80yWnUwrzbXEfx8x7tYXsJgCd4xJHzKIB-2Fx9mdiPJg3YpLBdmwMHz4k6ODrPJE8odYUnJsvwyaEm6pEurbY-3D\/RS2S&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590844166075000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFX_IxQSNiJpG3_OU96IgwM-sYJg\">added hundreds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of fact-check notes to other non-Trump tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The social media companies on their part have slammed the move calling it unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">In a tweet Thursday evening, Twitter said that the executive order was \u201ca reactionary and politicized approach to a landmark law. #Section230 protects American innovation and freedom of expression, and it\u2019s underpinned by democratic values. Attempts to unilaterally erode it threaten the future of online speech and Internet freedoms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Facebook spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois said in a statement that the company believes in protecting freedom of expression along with protecting users from harmful content.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u201cThose rules apply to everybody,\u201d she said. \u201cRepealing or limiting Section 230 will have the opposite effect. It will restrict more speech online, not less.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Google spokeswoman Riva Sciuto said in a statement that undermining Section 230 could hurt the economy and the United States\u2019 role in Internet freedom. \u201cWe have clear content policies and we enforce them without regard to political viewpoint,\u201d she said. \u201cOur platforms have empowered a wide range of people and organizations from across the political spectrum, giving them a voice and new ways to reach their audiences.\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">If it comes into effect Trump&#8217;s Order could reshape how the internet\u2019s social giants treat the tweets, memes, and screeds we post on our feeds, and could potentially set off a chain reaction in which similar moves could be attempted by governments elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first of such moves by a politician, the US president Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that decrees a number of changes in how major social media platforms &#8211; mainly Twitter, Facebook and Youtube police and restrict certain content posted on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The official order that was shared by Trump himself on Twitter seeks to hold tech companies responsible for being publishers, and limit their role in censoring content &#8211; especially of a political nature that goes against their own political leanings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facebook, Twitter And Google Slam Trump Order That Seeks To Prevent Them From Restricting RW Voices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/facebook-twitter-google-slam-trump-order-seeks-prevent-restricting-rw-voices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook, Twitter And Google Slam Trump Order That Seeks To Prevent Them From Restricting RW Voices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a first of such moves by a politician, the US president Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that decrees a number of changes in how major social media platforms - mainly Twitter, Facebook and Youtube police and restrict certain content posted on their platforms.  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