<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_8294918792586619659WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 28, 2020 3:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Does anybody still think a US dictatorship is impossible?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 5:30 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail-m_8294918792586619659gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i>I'm hearing the order is "dead on arrival" - parts of it order things he doesn't have authority to order</i><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">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 going to stop him?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">John aren’t you glad we have a constitution?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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