Reports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media

[octoberlib]

The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies.

The White House has prepared an executive order called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship” that would give the Federal Communications Commission oversight of how Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies monitor and manage their social networks, according to a CNN report.

Under the order, which has not yet been announced and could be revised, the FCC would be tasked with developing new regulations that would determine when and how social media companies filter posts, videos or articles on their platforms.

The draft order also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to take those new policies into account when investigating or filing lawsuits against technology companies, according to the CNN report.


https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/reports-say-white-house-has-drafted-an-order-putting-the-fcc-in-charge-of-monitoring-social-media/

[Scoopster]

1. Unconstitutional EO - violates the 1st amendment.

Companies can take whatever action their want to moderate their users on their own platform. Unlike this government, which is attempting to tear up the 1st Amendment. Classic projection.

[octoberlib]

3. I was wondering about this . Thanks. Trump wants to be Kim Jong Un so bad. Or Stalin.

[shanti]

12. Putin

He has his own station too.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. May Google, Twitter, and FB all pull up stakes and move their

operations to Mexico.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. The right trying to legislate the fairness doctrine after destroying it

They infiltrated radio and took it over so the left moves to social media now here comes the right to destroy it

[Grasswire2]

5. consolidating power.

Dems getting practice at whack a mole.

[TheRealNorth]

6. Opening the Floodgates

For the Russian and RW bots.

[AlexSFCA]

7. I will trust facebook before I trust trump's admin

what that executive order really means is turning FCC to Cambridge Analytica to help trump victory in 2020z

[Takket]

8. A laughably absurd proposal

The Feds can regulate in ways like how the FCC regulates TV but that is it. You can’t regulate content.

[onenote]

9. The FCC is an independent agency whose jurisdiction is defined by Congress, not the President

[Dan]

10. Maybe while they're monitoring social media

they could get rid of those nude pictures of his wife on the internet.

[blogslut]

11. Hmmm

Would that maybe blast open the door to defining the internet as a public utility?