Legal experts 'ratio' Trump's executive order aimed at social media companies

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Congress has protected Twitter, Facebook and other platforms, and the president's action can't do away with that.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's executive order to get the federal government more involved in regulating social media sites like Twitter won't accomplish much and would be bad public policy, according to many experts on internet law.

In 1996, Congress said websites cannot be held legally responsible for the content posted by their users. That's true whether internet companies simply automatically pass along whatever is submitted or screen it beforehand. Story continuesThat's been the settled law for a quarter-century , according to Eric Goldman, who teaches internet law at Santa Clara University.

 

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Sorry but Trump is right. I had post deleted and they were factual and not made up. Social media is trying to silence what they don’t like

LYING TRUMP FACT CHECKED every time he opens his LYING MOUTH ddale8

laughed would be a better verb. its a comically useless order. he has no power without, wait for it, Congress to regulate twitter

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