Section 230 Trump

The section 230 protection has stopped twitter from taking action against the inflammatory content mr trump is prone to post but the social media company may have to change that if it is legally.

Section 230 trump. Section 230 currently gives social media companies an exemption from laws regarding libel and defamation as they are considered hosts of others users rather than advocates themselves of any political leanings. C mon robby it is the very existence of section 230 that has enabled google facebook twitter etc. Trump realdonaldtrump october 6 2020. In may 2020 trump issued an executive order aimed at limiting the legal protection offered by section 230.

Last week trump met with republican state attorneys. Section 230 created the modern internet and the legislation is now at the center of presiden trump s war on social media companies. Trump s executive order challenging section 230 focuses primarily on how platforms moderate content arguing that the law allows tech giants to restrict freedom of speech. To censor president trump and anyone else they choose with impunity.

The move came after twitter appended fact checks to several of his tweets regarding. Los angeles president donald trump called for a repeal of section 230 a law widely credited for creating the internet as we know it today. Section 230 a provision to a 1996 law that shields facebook and google from liability for what users post is increasingly under fire from trump. The next day trump issued an executive order demanding that the federal communications commission and federal trade commission reevaluate section 230.

This provision of the communications decency act is being blamed for everything from social media bias to enabling revenge porn.