[ExI] Does anybody still think a US dictatorship is impossible?

[Dylan Distasio]

Conflating gutting the 1st amendment with this executive order is
misguided.   It's not as black and white as that.   Sec 230 as originally
applied to ISPs protected them because they were not purposefully acting
like publishers, merely conduits.   The precedence here is to also treat
companies like Twitter with the same protections, and there is a very good
chance that based on that legal precedence, the SCOTUS will rule against
this order in any case.   Even if they don't, it will just mean that
Twitter ends up being treated like any other publisher such as the NY Times
or Washington Post.

A challenge to remove Sec 230 protections from companies like Facebook,
Twitter, and Google has been building in conservative circles for some time
now as the evidence of their own political bias in filtering data through
their platforms has accumulated and been documented.



On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2020 3:08 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Does anybody still think a US dictatorship is
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> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 5:30 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
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> *> **I'm hearing the order is "dead on arrival" - parts of it order
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> When dictators destroy democracies they never have the authority to do so,
> but they do so anyway, and I have little confidence Trump's judges on the
> Supreme Court will do the right thing, much less the US  Senate. So who's
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>  John K Clark
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> The constitution will stop him.  But that isn’t necessary, as he didn’t
> actually start anything.  An executive order doesn’t apply to FaceBook or
> Twitter: they don’t work for the government.
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> John aren’t you glad we have a constitution?
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