RE: How to make Trump react quickly.
05-29-2020, 11:35 AM (This post was last modified: 05-29-2020, 11:37 AM by SilverFang01.)
05-29-2020, 11:35 AM (This post was last modified: 05-29-2020, 11:37 AM by SilverFang01.)
This should help clarify things:
This is from an older blog post he wrote regarding this same issue, back in 2019.
Harold Feld, Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge Wrote:Short version. Trump's executive order has virtually zero legal effect. Srsly. And please, please PLEASE do not speculate if you (a) have not actually read the Executive Order, and (b) have not actually read 47 U.S.C. 230 and/or Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. 45). You will maketh my head to hurt.Stung By Twitter, Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies
The Order:
1. Tells the NTIA to file a Petition for Rulemaking with the FCC to issue rules around Section 230. This will take awhile. There is nothing to see until this process starts. I will explain this process later.
2. Directs the FTC to look about possible enforcement undr Section 5. That's nice. I've looked at it. I laughed a lot. Any many can call upon the demons of the deep, but will they answer? But if y'all want to waste brain cells worrying about this, I can't stop you.
3. Trump Admin may pull advertising dollars from social media platforms that don't suck up to them. This is potentially an issue. It is however, the one everyone is ignoring.
This is from an older blog post he wrote regarding this same issue, back in 2019.
Harold Feld, Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge Wrote:"But for those who still don’t get it, giving an administration that regards abuse of power for political purposes as a legitimate tool of governance the power to harass important platforms for the exchange of views and information unless they promote its political allies and suppress its critics is something of a worst case scenario for the First Amendment and democracy generally."Can Trump Really Have The FCC Regulate Social Media? So No.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg