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I'm not a Trump fan by any means. But when it comes to combating reckless censorship and fighting for free speech, especially in social media, I approve of what he is doing.
all too often social media sites exercise political favoritism by censoring outspoken members of one side or the other. In my mind social media should be seen as a public utility and as such its users should have protections to freedom of speech that you arent usually guaranteed in a private space.
This also may mean that a lot of fediverse instances that have servers in America might need to start second guessing their draconian censorship policies, and that would be a happy change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/trump-executive-order-social-media.html
> censoring outspoken members
Marking utter bullshit with "you can read more reliable info on this subject here" badge is not censorship by any known definition of #censorship
@kravietz I agree, I have no issue with the "you can read more info here" stuff... but seems that while that may have been what triggered trump, the sorts of laws he is pushing is more about censorship and likely wont really make those sorts of posts illegal, per se, but will be able to hold it up to scrutiny.
If a post is labled as a lie, and it is proven in court it isnt, then there are repercussions, for example
Note there's no "it's a lie" label involved. It literally says "you can read more here" under the original content.
TBH I would love to see his posts taken to a court because then we would have them dissected to bits with the bullshit properly exposed from expert and legal point of view.
Ok but then I'm missing the point - why is he enacting law that as he explained will tackle exactly the problem of marking false information as false?
@kravietz the post itself ist the issue. Trump cant and wot make what they did regarding his post illegal. What trump will do (hopefully) is remove protections from social media so they can be accountable for legit censorship. Thats a good thing.