Trump signs executive order removing liability protection for editorialized social media. Are you listening SurferMag?

Mike_Jones

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These companies started and grew by operating platforms for free speech. Now after capturing huge followings, these companies have escalated editorializing, post removal and member bannings for nothing besides disagreement over political issues. The federal government has been shielding internet forums assuming that they represent platforms. As of today this assumption is officially gone. As social media companies get sued in court for the above actions they will be forced to prove that they are not editorializing in order to claim the old "platform" status.

The administrative branch granted special treatment for specific restraints. These companies have ceased to follow the restraints, and they are losing their special status.

The most popular forums have become social "institutions", and are subject to regulation. It will not surprise me to see future legislation which creates criminal penalties for editorial control on social media forums, much like old national TV network regulations. This seems to be a popular topic on capitol hill.

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the janitor

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GDaddy

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So he isn't censoring them after all?

Unpossible. I was assured this was the first step toward rounding up all the journalists and academics and sending them to a Supermax in Alaska for 20 years at hard labor. Socialist-Style.
 

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These companies started and grew by operating platforms for free speech.
wrong. they started as private businesses to collect data and sell ads

Now after capturing huge followings, these companies have escalated editorializing, post removal and member bannings for nothing besides disagreement over political issues.
wrong. people are banned for violating terms of use, regardless of political bent

you cannot point to any bannings that are politically motivated and not an obvious
violation of existing user policy

your paranoid delusions of censorship on the forums is the most pathetic and
unsane thing I think I've heard seen an internet whackjob glom on to.
 
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Sharkbiscuit

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wrong. they started as private businesses to collect data and sell ads



wrong. people are banned for violating terms of use, regardless of political bent

you cannot point to any bannings that are politically motivated and not an obvious
violation of existing user policy

your paranoid delusions of censorship on the forums is the most pathetic and
unsane thing I think I've heard seen an internet whackjob glom on to.
Look, you can spout libcuck bullshit all you want. Squid Lee is going to put the smack down if Surfer Mag isn't careful.

Right, Squid? You aren't going to go out like a punk ass bitch!
 

Mike_Jones

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wrong. they started as private businesses to collect data and sell ads



wrong. people are banned for violating terms of use, regardless of political bent

you cannot point to any bannings that are politically motivated and not an obvious
violation of existing user policy

your paranoid delusions of censorship on the forums is the most pathetic and
unsane thing I think I've heard seen an internet whackjob glom on to.

Bullshit.

Where was Twitter's "fact check" on this post?

Twitter: No Warning on Misleading Viral Photo of Minneapolis Cop at Trump Rally

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Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll confirmed on Wednesday that Derek Chauvin — the officer caught on tape resting his full weight on Minnesota man George Floyd’s neck shortly before he died — was not on stage at an October campaign rally held by President Donald Trump.

Despite Twitter’s new approach to “fact-checking” their content, false claims that Chauvin was on stage at a Trump rally went viral and have not been moderated by the platform at the time of this writing. Minneapolis Police Union President Lieutenant Bob Kroll verified that the officer pictured was not Chauvin.

Twitter has, and continues to, allow the content to circulate its platform — even by verified users. Despite their new commitment to verifying information, there is no “get the facts” link on the tweets, as has been famously applied to President Donald Trump. They were significantly slower to do the same to China.




Fiction author Don Winslow’s message does not yet feature a “get the facts” label, despite being highlighted in a fact check by the far-left website Snopes. Though Winslow frames the identification as a question, he has not deleted the misleading post even after fact-checkers have given a definitive answer.

This is not the first time a misleading picture about Chauvin has circulated on Twitter. On Wednesday, an allegedly doctored photo of Jonathan Lee Riches in a red “Make Whites Great Again” baseball cap was spread by verified profiles, labeled as a picture of Chauvin. Twitter ultimately added a “Manipulated Media” label to those posts — but only after a Breitbart report highlighting its inaction.
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Twitter is the basically the new home of tabloid rag journalism. And yes, that includes Trumps use of it. He KNOWS it's troll central.

Twitter's replaced those newsracks you used to see at the corner liquor store.

Hal and others here love to promote it in all their tabloid glory.

It's all they got left, since none have an original thought worth a bat sh*t.
 

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There is NO WAY this guy doesn't lay his azz on a tanning bed with no bridge tanning glasses at least once a week.

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afoaf

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Bullshit.

Where was Twitter's "fact check" on this post?

Twitter: No Warning on Misleading Viral Photo of Minneapolis Cop at Trump Rally

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Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll confirmed on Wednesday that Derek Chauvin — the officer caught on tape resting his full weight on Minnesota man George Floyd’s neck shortly before he died — was not on stage at an October campaign rally held by President Donald Trump.

Despite Twitter’s new approach to “fact-checking” their content, false claims that Chauvin was on stage at a Trump rally went viral and have not been moderated by the platform at the time of this writing. Minneapolis Police Union President Lieutenant Bob Kroll verified that the officer pictured was not Chauvin.

Twitter has, and continues to, allow the content to circulate its platform — even by verified users. Despite their new commitment to verifying information, there is no “get the facts” link on the tweets, as has been famously applied to President Donald Trump. They were significantly slower to do the same to China.




Fiction author Don Winslow’s message does not yet feature a “get the facts” label, despite being highlighted in a fact check by the far-left website Snopes. Though Winslow frames the identification as a question, he has not deleted the misleading post even after fact-checkers have given a definitive answer.

This is not the first time a misleading picture about Chauvin has circulated on Twitter. On Wednesday, an allegedly doctored photo of Jonathan Lee Riches in a red “Make Whites Great Again” baseball cap was spread by verified profiles, labeled as a picture of Chauvin. Twitter ultimately added a “Manipulated Media” label to those posts — but only after a Breitbart report highlighting its inaction.
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report false content.

see what happens.

because people commit a crime doesn't mean the police aren't there.
 

GromsDad

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This is not the first time a misleading picture about Chauvin has circulated on Twitter. On Wednesday, an allegedly doctored photo of Jonathan Lee Riches in a red “Make Whites Great Again” baseball cap was spread by verified profiles, labeled as a picture of Chauvin. Twitter ultimately added a “Manipulated Media” label to those posts — but only after a Breitbart report highlighting its inaction.
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This was the post I mentioned the other day that I had seen re-posted by a former ASP surfer.
 

kidfury

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Chauvin-the-neck-kneeler gets a bullet in the brain, hat or no hat. Right Gromsdad? A lethal injection of some sort, right Gromsdad? Sooner rather than later. His head on a spike would be too much though, don't you think?