Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies | ABC News

1. The net is going down because of censorship? It could swing that way?

2. They finally messed with someone with Real power. Excellent Mr Trump!!!

3. 🤦‍♂️ Stupid is as Stupid does.

4. With everything going on in this country right now this is what we get from
   The White House ? 😒🤣🤣

5. Cannot wait for this to be passed by the legislature as well.

6. my posts have been censored..smell the coffee.

7. "keep the comments respectful" THEY decide what is or isn't respectful!!! "Community Guidelines" – THEIR GUIDELINES!!! and if for one millisecond you think they are unbiased and even-handed then there is little hope for you they are a SEARCH ENGINE COMPANY, NOT A PUBLISHER…Trump is defending the Republic against a big tech, SEARCH ENGINE COMPANY which decides what and what cannot can be said in the public square. if you weren't so blinded by 'orange man bad' thinkery, you would be thanking him wholeheartedly.

8. my post of 5 minutes ago was removed. smell the coffee. the one above is my second attempt.

9. it's about time you left wing nut cases realised that the thing that you used to defend with your lives – 'freedom of speech' – is now trampled on by YOU. censorship is the weapon big tech uses to silence dissent. and they couldn't do it without your help. which you are more than happy to give. you ARE the very thing you falsely claim to be against. AUTHORITARIANISM. you should be thanking trump for protecting Democracy, you useful idiots.

10. Anyone that thinks this is an issue of freedom of speech is truly retarded and doesn't understand the rights afforded to American citizens.

11. Good

12. This order was needed. Great move

13. When he says a lot of Democrats agree without naming them he's using the political feud to make people side with what he's saying without providing proof of either. Mind games for simple people.

14. land of the free , huh.
    untill it doesnt suit the president personally.

15. You Trump, want to go and fact check. You Trump, promote racism. You Trump, want to concentrate on the citizens of America dying of C-19. What is about to come out, thay you want to cover up? Be reminded that the election is coming, when you want those media outlets to cooperate with you, l hope they tell you to go do one. You are a child who cannot get its own way, so you have a tandram, and make things s@#t, for all. You are the worst.

16. It's about bloody time. Now do the same thing for FB AND INSTA.. Finally you did something good for once..Thank-You Mr President.

17. ✌ 🖤 💓

18. He is warned by tweeting that mail in voting ballets is not safe, yet he submitted his vote via mail. Go for Tweeter to flag his comment as fake. Now he find this more important than the 100k people that have died in 3 months and now we are seeing increases of covid-19 some states opening up early. He should be Working on the stimulus package for another round for the struggling people, which Republicans say "no" due to worried that it will not encourage them to go back to work. This is insane!!!! https://apple.news/AeyK1UyY4QxCRcA3mr5NQ1A

19. Our own president refuses to wear a mask lol. This guy is such a joke he’s gonna get so many Americans killed by reopening. Smh don’t be a satistic guys, wear a n95 mask and stay protected if you’re gonna go out, if you’re worried about pricing USfacemask.net has very cheap mask prices.

20. Oh oh, he said there may be others……watch out You Tube

21. The first time I've heard trump tell the truth. He's right in 2016 Russia's use of social media put fat baby hands trump was put into office. It should not have happened. trump will be in court for years if he thinks an executive order can block twitter from using their platform as they see fit. The baby man is crying again.

22. Imagine, your right in the middle of a phone conversation and poof you get a message you lost your phone rights. Then there is a knock at the door its the CCP. And you have lost your credit rating. Plus you will be tracked by face recognition forever. Sold to china by the biden corp. If you think this is OK you might be ok with living in china.

23. f******g BRILLIANT about time Mr Trump well done Thank you.

24. what happened to his eyes??

25. Fat check?

26. I will make twitter regret that they pointed out my lies! I have the right to lie to the public!

27. Someone for God's sake please start a petition we can all sign to kick Trump off of Twitter!!! Let's see?..…So it's only important for Trump to have Free speech but if people who comment on his Twitter or Twitter executives themselves exercise their freedom of speech rights by disagreeing with him in a healthy debate and keep this in mind not just regarding an opinion but supplying proof of fact to conflict the lies he just posted….and he lashes out like a poisonous snake!!!! Twitter executives are such God damn hypocrites and weaklings! Of all the lies deceit and disgusting comments that Trump has made disparaging name-calling insulting and denigrating the character of human beings including but not limited to; immigrants, gold star families, War Heroes, whistleblower Heroes, political Rivals, former staff members, former presidents, or political opponents, etc the hit list of his lies about his "enemies and detractors" go on and on and on! And the world has been begging Twitter for years since he was elected to delete his disgusting lies and factually inaccurate tweets and they have done nothing!!! Just this past week the widow of a poor woman who was a Colleague of television political commentator and Trump Target, Joe Scarborough, who died of an undiagnosed health condition that was ruled an accident via autopsy approximately 19 years ago wrote to the CEO of Twitter an impassioned letter begging and pleading him to please take down the tweets that Trump had been posting about his wife and denigrating and dragging her memory, and how she passed away…. Yet Twitter ignored him did not respond and did not remove it! And after 3 years of abuse from Trump and misinformation spreading lies to the entire world they finally grow a pair of balls and decide to fact-check him on "mail-in voting" procedures!!? Which is an important subject yes but after all his vile messaging this is what they respond to are you kidding me??? Trump is a vengeful unhinged narcissistic demented psychopathic child! You take his marbles away or tell him he can't have that last slice of cake and his temper tantrum is so big that he has to attack with full force, the largest social media tech companies on the world, that billions of people use every single day to communicate and have healthy debate around the world and he abuses it incessantly and now has decided in his rage and uncontrollable disgusting behaviour that he's going to try and threaten ALL these valued, innovative media companies to sanction them, and put rules against them and attempt to close them down?🤣 And on top of it he pitches his behaviour like he's doing this "to protect the American people"!!! from bias when this is all about him and no one else why is he not locked up in a straight jacket behind bars this is complete and utter insanity!!! oh and PS he decides to be this Petty and insolent during a national and international pandemic of which he is responsible on his watch for the death of a hundred thousand plus American citizens! Instead of focussing on and tackling that incredibly number one priority, he decides to golf and tweet instead!

28. i love this man. best president ever

29. Every day Trump has a trick to destroy his country.

30. Authoritarian much?

31. People are dying and this is his concern ….poor thing he's old and can't prioritize … smh ….

32. Looks like President Karen got a spray tan in between his temper tantrums

33. Big Brother

34. Certain platforms have very leftist leanings, banning or silencing those who have a viewpoint leaning anywhere near conservatism. This is a good thing to sign. Social media platforms can't claim they're politically neutral when they're not!

35. Freedom of Speech, wah, wah, wah Donald Trump and you don’t lie. Give it up even the media can backup your lies, “ I never said that” you should listen to all of it on tape!!!!!

36. I just read the presidents executive order

    It's really well written.

    Essentially the gist of it is..

    Currently sites like Twitter are protected by a law that prevents them from being liable in the event one of there users says something defaming or illegal.

    The thing about this is that law was designed for platforms and not content creators.

    Once they pick and choose what to show and not show based on there opinions, they go from platform to editorial (content creator)

    By doing so they give up there right to be protected against defamation lawsuits.

    So essentially if twitter wants to keep censoring people they disagree with they will lose all shielding from litigation

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