Bill Barr and the White House plan to collect information on social media users when Trump signs EO

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May 28, 2020

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

A draft of President Donald Trump’s social media executive order shows it would create disturbing structures that could allow the President of the United States to personally target social media companies he feels are taking action against his supporters, enable his supporters to report that action directly to the White House, and empower the Attorney General of the United States to collect publicly available “watch-lists” of social media users that monitor not only their online activities but their offline activities as well.

The draft is not final, but both the speed with which it will be signed and reports show it likely has not gone through interagency review, as CNN’s Brian Fung, who calls it “hastily conceived,” notes.

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Reuters has confirmed a draft of the executive order, which President Trump has promised he will sign today. They report it “requires the Attorney General to establish a working group including state attorneys general that will examine the enforcement of state laws that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair and deceptive acts.”

The order directs the White House Office of Digital Strategy to turn back on the White House Tech Bias Reporting Tool, which the Trump administration created in 2019. It is currently dormant. The tool would be used to collect complaints of what social media users feel is online censorship by tech companies. Those complaints would be submitted by the White House to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Here it comes, Der Fuhrer and his toadies are shitting on the First Amendment even more. If we don't get rid of them in November, nothing will stop them from making the US a dictatorship. Scary as hell.

On edit: Jack Dorsey brought this on himself. If he had reined in that asshole years ago by enforcing his own TOS then this clusterfuck wouldn't be happening.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. This is pure USSR type stuff

Not only taking over the rules that private companies choose for themselves, but creating enemies lists of citizens for the administration to keep and use.

[shanti]

21. Well

We know where he's getting his ideas.

[dalton99a]

2. So Barr is our Minister of Justice and Minister of Truth.

[BComplex]

3. Then it has to apply to Biden supporters as well.

There is campaign finance legislation that says what's good for the goose.....

[UTUSN]

4. "Unconstitutional" applies to Executive Orders, no? Plus, pending lawsuits, are *we*/DU susceptible?

[Totally Tunsie]

8. I'm wondering the same. How long before Chump tries to

close in on open forums such as DU? Does this EO enable the WH to investigate and collect data on (any) forum posters?

Are we in the midst of the Big Brother era?

[UTUSN]

16. OOooo, you called him Chump!1 Don't tell him i call him SHITLER!1

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Yeah - that's my default name for him.

It does change, however, depending on his idiocy on any given day.

"Shitler" works too!

[Star-Thrower]

24. Scary stuff, nightmarish.

They're probably are already monitoring sites like this that are pro Dems and RepubliCons, not so much. We must take the Oval and the Senate.

[Volaris]

5. This is gonna blow up in his face.

The very fact that Twitter hasnt banned him yet, is all the proof needed that the very premise of his argument is complete nonsensical bullshit.

[SCantiGOP]

34. and something like this

pushes several hundred, hopefully several thousand, libertarian-minded republicans to vote L instead of R in November, or just decide to stay home.
The math is simple - every non-vote for trump is equivalent to a vote for Biden.

[42bambi]

6. This - ..."state laws that prohibit online platforms from engaging in

unfair and deceptive acts.” Wouldn't that include our Dick-traitor since he is the most vile creature on social media. Someone with tons of money should hire millions of bots to post and crash "their" social media system.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Da Fuq? nt

[Thomas Hurt]

9. he signs it and there will quickly follow a law suit for an injunction and to overturn it.

While it is winding it way through the courts they will rewrite to see if they get the courts to buy into restrictions of some kind.

[Johnny2X2X]

22. They will just go ahead and do it

This administration doesn't respect the courts, they'll just go ahead and do this and start attacking critics with it.

[AtheistCrusader]

30. The ACLU will have to struggle mightily just to be first in line.

[Baked Potato]

10. Another campaign issue for Joe to kick Dump in his Huevos Pocitos with

[hedda_foil]

11. This wasn't written in 24 hours and the spying mechanism goes back to last year.

They were just waiting to roll it out

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. The FCC doesn't regulate content carried over the Internet.

[Yavin4]

18. No one has explain the differences between the broadcast spectrum and the internet to Trump.

The cartoon artist is too busy making cartoons explaining a pandemic.

[Botany]

38. You and your details

Trump once told Tim Cook of Apple that he should be working on the 5-G network
even though Apple makes phones and stuff and the network is from companies like
Verizon, Sprint, ATT, and so on.

Trump is a very simple man.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

39. :-)

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. I expect a letter from the new TrumpLove Monitoring Department,

warning me that my observed TrumpLove Rating is far from optimal.

Screw 'em. And that goes triple for Dear Leader.

(Damn. Just dropped another ten points.)

[global1]

14. Will The DOJ Go Back And Review All Of Trump's Tweets Since He Started Using....

this media?

[ElementaryPenguin]

15. FUCK YOU, BILL BARR!!

[procon]

19. As I recall, the country has some moldering

old historical document that listed a bunch of no-nos about search and seizure stuff. Looks like Trump and Barr have even less familiarity with that piece of paper than I do.

[sarcasmo]

20. Dictator Don is close.

[EndlessWire]

27. Yes

IMO, he already is one. There will not be a hugely defining moment when people can look horrified and point their fingers. He has defied our laws, entrenched those sycophants willing to do his bidding, and he threatens our institutions on a daily basis.

He has private deals with other tyrants, installed his family in the government for succession, and associates himself with countries also dealing with tyrants. He walks like a dictator, talks like a dictator, and IS a dictator. He just isn't ready to reveal himself 100% yet.

We are about to get schooled on dictators and what is possible in the good ole USA.

I don't believe in shooting and killing (or kneeling on someone's neck until dead,) but it may not be possible to retrieve the country without violence. But, not the "let's riot and get some free goods!" type of crap. We need to be cool and not do that. But, tell me how to dislodge a dictator?

Voting is our first Plan A attempt to get him to go away. But, he is advertising and setting up to deny the voting results, and involve the SC, which he has stacked in his favor. Our Plan B has to be something more clever than Civil War 2.

Maybe we should start with advertisements (Plan A) everywhere to inform everyone about the necessity of voting him out. Then, Plan B can be the actual vote. Then, maybe Plan C, a country shutdown of services, civil disobedience, etc. Plan D...well, you know what that would likely be.

Plan E would probably mean leaving the country...White, Christian males would be happy until they discover the country can't run without the rest of us. Then, maybe they will get rid of their hero. Their way...

It sure tells us a lot when the very first time Twitter fact checks him that he gets huffy with "I am the President" and moves to restrict us from holding him responsible. He needs Twitter to disseminate his lies.

[sarcasmo]

33. November 4th through January 19th, 2020 will be Democracies last stand.

[EndlessWire]

41. I agree. n/t

[pazzyanne]

23. Big Brother is alive and well.

His name is Bill Barr, surrogate for the Mango Menace.

[OMGWTF]

25. "Unfair and Deceptive Acts" Translates into the Truth.

[Cha]

26. shcocking BLOTUS FASCISTS didn't go through any

normal channels.

[AtheistCrusader]

28. Really, does that mean they're going to read it? Because I have a lot of things to share with them.

None of it, they will enjoy.

[BamaRefugee]

29. So we get it into courts and then stall it til after the election. THEN we enable it as "trump's law

and immediately begin to use it against every heinous hate filled right winger.

[George II]

31. "....state laws that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair and deceptive acts...."

Does that include the tens of thousand of deceptive LIES trump has said on Twitter?

This could backfire, dotard. Twitter could cut you off and you'd have to sue!

[SCantiGOP]

32. Maybe the 53 repub Senators could get together

and find enough courage and patriotism to pool it and equip four of their members to stand up to this obvious attack on our civil liberties.

[Botany]

36. Illegal and Unconstitutional

So how fast will the following happen:

* Tied up in the courts.

* Dropped as a really bad idea. aka Donny, "Twitter was mean to me so I want to get rid of the 1st amendment."

* Adam Schiff starts a new impeachment hearing.

[BlueMTexpat]

37. Let them!

They may be surprised how many of us HATE their guts!

[Generic Brad]

40. They going to try to kick our ass and take our names?

Will they be getting FISA warrants against DU (as an example) and try to intimidate us into shutting up?