Trump Says He Will Veto Budget Unless Big Tech Protections are Removed – IOTW Report

Trump Says He Will Veto Budget Unless Big Tech Protections are Removed

Dan Bongino:

President Trump says that he will veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) unless section 230 is terminated as part of the bill.

Although Trump means well and is trying to address a serious problem in America, tech censorship on social media, this probably isn’t the best way about it. Many people on the Right (and some prominent ones on the Left) have focused on section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as  a potential solution to the problem. It reads,

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

However, all this really does is guarantee that websites can allow comments without being sued. For example, if we had a comments section on this website and someone made a libelous claim about Barack Obama in the comments section, Barack Obama could potentially sue us instead Poopface1412, who actually made the comment.  If you were trying to get rid of user comments from users entirely, that would be the way to go.

However, is the tech censorship problem really about comments? No. Do you care if liberals get censored on Fox or conservatives get censored on the Huffington Post? Probably not. The reason people care about the censorship happening on Facebook and Twitter is those services are effectively monopolies. more

10 Comments on Trump Says He Will Veto Budget Unless Big Tech Protections are Removed

  1. Newspapers shut down their reader comments sections in advance of the Spring 2020 Democrat offensive. That is where people went to judge the public’s acceptance of the veracity of the claims being made. They thought Big Tech had their back, and they did, but the internet is realigning and they were not able to control the narrative. That does not mean there is not sufficient reason to end their bullshit protections that allowed them to pull this stunt in the first place.

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  2. Trump Says He Will Veto Budget Unless Big Tech Protections are Removed

    I’m waiting for the followup headline:
    Tech moguls who resemble space aliens and street people hardest hit

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  3. It’s the age old question of restricting a right for all because not everyone plays nice.

    The cow is out of the barn already on this – I think there are better ways to deal with monopolies – don’t use them or buy or support them.

    How many people on this site (besides larry the libtard) lives or dies or depends on Twitter and Facebook for their info and news?

    Also if you want to know socially how somebody’s doing – phone them or write them an email or “a letter.”

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