The proposed legislation is part of an executive order Trump signed on Thursday afternoon. Trump had attacked Twitter for tagging his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of fraud about mail-in voting with a warning prompting readers to fact-check the posts.
Twitter did not comment on the executive order. A Google spokeswoman said “undermining Section 230 in this way would hurt America’s economy and its global leadership on internet freedom.” Others like Jack Balkin, a Yale University constitutional law professor said “The president is trying to frighten, coerce, scare, cajole social media companies to leave him alone and not do what Twitter has just done to him.”
On Thursday, Trump said there is nothing he would rather do than get rid of his Twitter account but he had to keep it in order to circumvent the press and get his version of events to millions of followers.
Total abuse of power
His fault, I think. He was the one who think murder of any Democrats is a good thing. Mr Trump needs to be censored before he tweets anything.
Could this not be a good thing? If held responsible would most Trump tweets be taken down as false ('cus they are) and when they start a conservative version of Twitter it gets sued into oblivion for posting garbage.
The left, climate crazies and the LGBT maffia have taken over. Time to drain the swamp.
Has trump introduced a single piece of legislation since becoming POTUS? What a fucking joke he is. A very dangerous joke, but still a joke..
Then you will have given many dictators an excuse to be worse than they already are
Just like main stream media, many lawsuits soon. About time!
Good idea, do it, u are d president why shouldn't those misguided individuals not have regards for the sitting president?
adamboultonSKY Murica🇺🇸
This is the reaction as illustrated in the picture above when you make put a moron in the most powerful seat in the world. He bullied himself into office.Every 1 is starting to regret Y they didn’t do everything in their power to stand up to a bully. This was how Hitler started
Big Tech entities are no longer neutral platforms, they have become massive left-wing monopolies which threaten the very existence of freedom, free speech and democracy.
So Dumb Donnie Trump can use social media to criticize, name call, demean but anyone does it to him and he wants to shut it down? Real child in the WH.
Thugs? You mean N.g.ers. Your the biggest Thug of all. U won’t get my vote this time around!
VOTE HIM OUT & THE GOP WITH HIM VOTE
is this reducing the opportunity for free speech in a democracy ? Surely just because a media platform does not say popular things about the president shouldn't mean that the media companies are offered less legal protection ? Smacks of a dictatorship in the free world
and Pelosi steals a McConnel line.....'dead on arrival'
In a Country where the King or dictator wants control over all people & business the new legislation proposed in the USA would be expected.
The President of the United States doesn't 'introduce legislation'. Obviously Trump never paid attention (probably was too complicated) in Civics Class.
Expect a plethora of nonsensical gibberish rage fuelled tweets from the new Furher of the disunited states of America when this EO fails ! TrumpMeltdown trumpoppressor TrumpDictatorship
He said yes, they said no and he threw his toys out of the pram
Legislation that won’t pass any branch of goverment.
The end of the world maybe around the corner. Why? We are dealing with God in the image of Trump. No one sees God and lives. Will America agree to this monstrosity. Compared to Trump's misrule, thank God, our problems are tiny.
May the midgets come for you in the night. The secret ones that hide within full sized humans. Trump and those like him should be deemed as seriously mentally ill, and a danger to others. Having been there that means taken away to for evaluation.
He might as well use the Executive Order he signed in the bathroom to wipe is fat ass since that is about as much weight as it carries in doing anything. Merely for his base....but nice to see Twitter finally holding Trump to the same standards as everyone else.
Because it's ok to label anything he doesn't like as 'fake news' till the label falls onto him Trump Hypocrite KarmaIsAbitch
We will stand to save the blue bird from realDonaldTrump
Meanwhile, 100,000 dead Americans.
Many, many citizens are being unfairly targeted and silenced by Twitter & other Tech companies. Americans demand our free speech and we applaud our President!
Trump: Stop the bullying 'Be best'.
Need of hour, more than doing good these spread hate, cyber bullying and cause harrasment !!
Trump president adalah president terburuk dalam sejarah america
Not criticised, falsely fact checked. Twitter FB and Google should be regulated. If they're designated publishers it would ease the unfair competition on newspapers.
Geez, surely NOBODY saw this coming...
Poopypants.
adamboultonSKY 😬😬😬😬😬
he likes to be see as the boss in everything
The law is there to protect them if they are not playing publisher. If you want to play publisher then you should be subjected to the responsibility of facing lawsuits. Be honest in your reporting.
Trump is the Man!
Fake headlines like this is why....
Then it will be a communist movement, because you cannot express your words in social medias in communism! 🙄
He is so childish...
Trump just wanted to see all the people boasting about him on Twitter, blaming Biden, CNN, the Washington Post, and Chinese comments. Only then would he feel ‘legal’,
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Lol this headline is shameless
I am his supporter, but on this, no! He has always used Twitter to hit out at his opponents and communicate his agenda now he is fighting it. Personally I don’t appreciate that! But That’s his business!
PresidentKaren
harumutasa Nywe nywe media freedom, nywe nywe freeworld! Tikunzwei futi!
this is *extremely* stupid. this would force twitter, facebook, youtube etc to take sole accountability for content published (not the posters), which means they'd have to take GREATER autonomy in policing their sites and banning / deleting posts to avoid libel cases.
MbuyiseniNdlozi Democracy comes with responsibility
If I was in charge of Twitter, I would just close his account.
He’s wanting neutral space. S/t that doesnt happen on Twitter.
You should thank Twitter for letting you spill all the garbage from your mouth.
It means nothing. Go to bed.
realDonaldTrump U R soon 2B regarded as the AdolphHitluhrbx of the 21st century. At least he had the common sense to put a gun to his head at the end. Hopefully you will too.
Race riots and over 100,000 dead..he is unhinged
What’s funny is that Facebook needs to stand against this as well even if Zuckerberg loves trump so much. Cause they would be Liable for trumps bs they don’t fact check.
Much needed in the light of extreme bias by these social media platforms. Now, they will not be able to hide and will be held accountable under the rule of law. Only President Trump has the guts to do it.
He looks like a cartoon.
What a whinyass man baby.
I'll fact check him. He lies about everything.
this shit is so terrible, and why are they so afraid to say he is literally lying
Rip democracy like in India afterall his friendship with India's modi !!
See reply Smart dude!
Social media platforms not only have the right to fact check anybody/everybody, they could even do the inverse - discredit factual info - if they had that as their perverse intention. They also have the right to kick people off their platforms & maybe Jack do just that w/ Trump.
No more of trumps half truths on tweeter What a knucklehead. Banning himself 😂 realDonaldTrump
So he’s just bullying social media now 😂😂😂 And sadly poor Mark Zuckerberg just said he didn’t agree with Twitter on the factcheck matter. 😜
Small, small man. No plan for the pandemic, economic suffering, nation's mental health, huge wealth gap, or systemic racism & police brutality...but he pursues his personal vendetta against Twitter because it has the gall to link factual info. to Trump's insane tweets.
Yep, because they are fact finding his tweets!
that could mean his account will be banned immediately for violating all the rules
“F.A.C.T.” What other word would it be He’s clearly on drugs & massively un-hinged... Also, I love the “I’m real, sir.” response — & that he thinks each follower is a different person & not bot or magat w/ multiple “social-media” accounts. 186M?! Ha!!!! PupilsLikeSaucers
Oh no, it's going to make Twitter, Facebook and Google more responsible and force them to hire thousands of people to staff a new fact-checking department. Oh no, verified information stripped of falsehoods, how will we ever cope. What a step towards press responsibilities. Oh no
Is there anything important that he can talk about? Can we please ‘fact check’ that?
This is such a footgun. The cesspools of the internet that are Trump's base are going to burn under this EO.
Jackass.
“Fact Checking Isn’t Censorship, Donald” by Alexi Steel
How will this law help marketing research firms (U.S based troll farms) like the one Richard Grenell owns?
Tests? Tests? dumpgop
The editorializing of social media posts have affected, though disproportionately, both sides of the aisle. The idea has the right heart, but when humans are involved, our general ideation tends to seep through
fact-checking a liar doesn't have anything to do with free speech, trump can get off twitter if he doesn't like their policy, it is a free country- twitter is a private company, you want the government telling private companies what to do like communist countries?
So he wants Twitter to ban him definitely? Good. Biden2020 CassaAChapaTSE
Posting materials in the internet is free posting corrupt lies should be a crime, and everyone should be liable for their corrupt lies or using their platforms as an arm or extension of misinformation.Congress make the laws not a liar and corrupt individual
Lying bellend!
This is good. There is far too much toxicity on social media and it needs regulation. The tech giants have resisted this for purely commercial reasons. Time to put society first.
“You’re fake” “I know you are, but what am I?” (is how he should have responded)
He is on the right path ...
B.F.D.
İnternet yok olmayacak ama senin zihniyetin yok olacak... Beceriksiz yönetimini nereden çıkaracağını bilmiyorsun.. Gitmesini bilmiyorsunuz, yapıştınız mi o koltuklara Türkiyedeki ortağını da al git başka evrene.
I think they must scrap his Twitter account first.
fact check (f a c t) fact check yes to trumps lie on mail in ballots
Support this motion! Nowadays, social media industry across the world is inconsistent and Un-Professional especially Facebook is appeared to be pro-China! I am from Hong Kong and the victim of the Facebook Hong Kong! Facebook keep suppressing freedom of speech and information!
Sir you are genius,these have become platform of fake news,most of the countries governments are suffering and harassed by internet media
It’s quite clever of his lawyer’s to convert the text into words that Trump can read and pronounce, yet still convey the legal argument. Wouldn’t be easy.
Why does his eyes look a different colour to the rest of his moon head
Robot lies
He is a petty, vindictive, spoiled little brat who will slander anyone he likes but wets his pants when someone criticizes him.
I guess he will not be invited to Twitter's office party this year. Thank you Twitter for putting your foot up his ass.
Hail to emperor trump
Mídia que distorce quase tudo, não é previlégio apenas do terceiro mundo.
Buffett, Rogers, Soros and more. These experts are predicting a market crash. Trump continues to muse with internet and social media companies while Rome burns and dies a Covid Death.
If there is no bias, the now harm, no fowl, right? I think thou protesteth too much!
Bu devirde sosyal medyaya dil uzatırsan siyaseten eceline susamışsın demektir...
Like Hoover, Trump has singlehandedly caused a Great Depression. But Trump has also caused an epidemic to become much worse because of his unlimited stupidity. And he has alienated all of our allies and shown favoritism to communist dictators. Trump is a traitor.
عمو ترامب النت هو الوحي الذي كشف زيف تجار الدين والنجاسه السياسين
Happy to hear ! We will finally have some more space for meaningful twittering if this spacehog disappears.
chikaunigwe Careful though. You are about to lose these companies tongue EU through your own doing just like Amazon.
One thing happened and he took immediate action the next day. AMAZING Where would we be with out Repuicans? GOP Treason FoxNews
Who did his markup this morning?! Even worse than normal.
Everything he touches should be burned when he is thrown out
Twitter and YouTube have long helped CCP promote false information and attack the value of the United States. At the same time, it suppresses criticisms of CCP and severely punishes those who criticize CCP, even closing their accounts!
Personal vendetta - maniacal DOTARD.
There's not going to be any rational debate on this for the simple reason that Trump, and those who support him, are either incapable of, or unwilling to engage in, rational thought. Basically, we tolerated stupidity for so long, it's now entrenched, and shapes our world.
Il signe son arrêt de mort
Thank you Mr Trump, those of us who do not care about facts and the truth are totally behind you :)
The liar is also a crybaby. This is not good law making it is abuse of EO . Courts will toss this . Twitter should post a fact check on him again and see if his administration tries to enforce it.
Republicans: 'We do not care about facts, that is why we agree with Mr Trump.'
The election of 1932 put the democrats in power and in control of the White House and both houses of congress for the next 20 years. History will repeat itself in 2020. Trump is stupid and ignorant and knows nothing about american history. Trump is our Herbert Hoover.
If this change makes social media cos more liable for users’ statements, wouldn’t that mean they’ll crack down harder on liars, racists, fake accounts etc? It’s not good for them but it’s certainly not good for Trump or his ilk either. So why do it? Or am I missing something?
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If they were fact checking Bidens tweets I guess he would have done the same right?
Oh, yeah, only I’m unbiased in the world!
He looks like a clown, who does his hair and makeup?
Finally. I have been patiently waiting for something like this to happen. I know these liberal homo social media kingpins wouldnt be able to holdback. Now It wont be long before they get a taste of their own medicine. Ha ha ha! FU socialmedia
Twitter and jack made a HUGE strategic blunder in tampering with a Trump tweet. What made it worse was that they directly readers to an article on an anti-Trump site which contained false information! Twitter has since corrected their attempt to 'correct' the narrative.
Republicans are supposed to be champions for small government that leaves people alone. False!
The blue wave is coming. The election of 2020 will be a repeat of the election of 1932. Herbert Hoover was a horrible Republican President who pretty much caused the Great Depression. He lost in a landslide to FDR in 1932.
This is not news. This is political theater. 100,000 are dead and 1 in 4 Americans are unemployed. We need leadership, not tantrums.
I would bet that Trump has never read the bill of rights and most likely does not know what the bill of rights is. He has never read the constitution either. I doubt if he can actually read well enough to be considered literate.
This is the second civil war in US. Trump vs TWITTER, and blacks vs racism.
I love that there’s so many more serious things going on in the world right now and all this man cares about is social media. Wow.
When does free speech become propaganda?
his right btw
Trump is right! The so called Social Media works in favor of the Leftist Agenda and against the Right Wing! That's why he must act! Well done Mr. President. Trump 2020🇺🇸 Bolsonaro 2022🇧🇷
Legislation? From the most hated and divisive politician in American history? Within 6 months of an election? Go buy some lottery tickets. You’re not smart enough to get a job.
Here we go:
Obviously Donald Trump has a problem being fact checked
Hello Fox News?
More nonsense from President Virus
Before big techs grow into giant monsters, I hope the US government can take effective measures to prevent them from doing evil.
No one fact checks the left. Time we all heard lies from both sides & made up our own minds.
JusticeForGeorgeFloyd JusticeForAhmadArbery
If you in any way support conservatives they have been throwing you off , taking your followers & erasing your account! Facebook does the same!
He is now the white cheezie.
Look how quickly he moves when he’s in his feelings and it something he cares about. Too bad preventing mass American death isn’t something he cared about.
100,000+ Americans died from CV19 and little man Trump is worked up over Twitter fact checking his BS, situation normal.
Can’t imagine any business CEO supposedly focused on anti-bias naming a shallow, elitist politics hack who attacks all people who don’t live on the coasts. Flyover Seems Jack is absent, wants out. Silicon Valley neighbors are tired of SocialMedia tech disconnect.
Is Trump with vitiligo? Look at his eyes!?!
Welcome to Arab world dictatorship
Would such a law also impact cable television, talk radio, etc? Would be great to see all of these be 'fair' as well. Particularly talk radio.
It’s a free country- anyone is free to create their own platform and compete against Twitter. No one has a monopoly on social media. TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
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For someone who spends every waking hour on Twitter, he sure does seem bitter towards it
the sad thing is he actually thinks that weakening this law will help him. but it will lead companies like Twitter having to ban his ass, because all he does is lie on it
Which is both toothless and illegal, so once again, he's done nothing but bluster in an attempt to downplay his death toll.
He was never censored or blacklisted. His ability to spew false information wasn't even impeded. But as the idiot occupying the most powerful position in the country, he was FactCheck. Twitter and ALL reliable news media outlets need to stand together and rebel against this.
realDonaldTrump F a c t check because of social distancing or what? 😂
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Killing his followers, and cutting off his mouthpiece habits. well well well