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	[quote name="blackwater"]<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/28/trump-social-media-executive-order/">Did Trump just pull the drain plug on social media?</a>: [quote name="TechCrunch"]On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order targeting the legal shield that internet companies rely on to protect them from liability for user-created content. That law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is essential to large social platforms like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, the kind of companies the president has long accused, without evidence, of deliberately suppressing conservative views. Trump was joined during the signing by Attorney General William Barr, who has previously expressed interest in stripping away or limiting the same legal protections for tech companies.[/quote] This is potentially huge. If the Section 230 shield fails, hordes of blood-thirsty lawyers will descend on the social media companies. Everyone who ever thought they were treated unfairly will sue. They'll have to bury what's left of Twitter in a shoebox. <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/">And the full text on whitehouse.gov.</a> But why now? [quote name="TechCrunch"]The executive order makes it clear that the president’s spat with Twitter inspired the action, though some of its language is likely recycled from an abandoned effort at a similar order last August. “Twitter now selectively decides to place a warning label on certain tweets in a manner that clearly reflects political bias,” the unusual order reads. “As has been reported, Twitter seems never to have placed such a label on another politician’s tweet.”[/quote] It's because they put a warning label on his tweet. Heh.[/quote]