"Watch-lists" may be coming to social media

[Qutzupalotl]

as a result of the president’s upcoming executive order:

Link to tweet

TL;DR version:

Blahblahblah unenforceable bullshit that is already beaten by Twitter’s TOS before it’s even signed.

Skip to the last page, though — there will be watchlists and off-platform tracking.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. As if there aren't already.

[Newest Reality]

2. The Trump Regime....

The Trump Regime is going into high gear. This is not a President, this is what it is like to have a dictator with power over your country, or at least one who is attempting to grab Lady Liberty by the...

[Warpy]

3. Back in the extreme paranoia of the early 00s

the NSA's domestic spying developed a list of words that would trigger a recording of an online conversation. A contractor was not a loyal employee and the list circulated in the deepest bowel of the net at that time. Some of the words, like "bomb" or "jihad" were obvious while others were completely benign and more a part of the left wing lexicon than from any real threat to public safety. Needless to say, anyone who'd been privy to that list vowed to keep them as busy as possible.

So yeah, watch list, ho hum, been on it for years, got an FBI file full of gossip and other lies, welcome to my world.

This EO is just a piece of paper to make Big Dumbass think he's done something. I sincerely hope all his posts from now on are fact checked by Twitter. It will eat him alive.

[Grokenstein]

4. "State Review of Unfair or Deceptive Practices"

*snrrrrrk*
...You mean, like telling people to "get all the facts" when the Toddler-in-Chief lies?

[Squidly]

5. Does he even have the power?

Can he even enforce this BS on a private company?
I cant wait for January to get here

[Johnny2X2X]

6. This is horrific

And it would probably cover DU. So basically if you criticize Trump they would put you on a watch list that they'd probably share with Right Wing extremist groups who would then threaten you.

Here's the Reuters link to the EO-
https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRAFT-EO-Preventing-Online-Censorship.pdf

This stuff is real. It's exactly what China does with the internet for their citizens.