We threw a Trump Dart (tm) last night, and it landed on "Trying to issue an Executive Order about Twitter." In fairness, because that's oozing all over the place it was hard to miss. But still, I'm going to keep this reasonably short just because it's so insane, even by Trump standards, which are so low as to be almost non-existent,
To start with, it isn't real, but just an attempt to distract for 103,330 dead Americans (that we know about) with no clue what to do, other than recommend bleach and hope for a "miracle." But as for the rest, it's hard to know where to start for which is the most insane thing about it. So, in a sort of stream-of-conscious way I'll just toss down reasons as they come to mind. It's illegal. It's obviously and blatantly illegal. The fact-check note they left on Trump's tweet that was full of lies is not "censorship," since nothing was censored, and his words weren't even edited. A private business can censor anything that comes out of it. A government trying to tell an information platform what it should allow and not allow is actually closer to a First Amendment violation than what Twitter did, which was just to leave a little asterisk for a fact check. If you force Twitter to be so concerned about being sued that they have to be overly protective about the tweets posted on their platform, Trump risks getting himself censored, blocked or even banned for the platform that is most-essential to his staying connected with his base. If you even ever somehow magically got this Executive Order passed, then it would put all far-right information sources including "Fox News" at risk of the same draconian requirements that Trump is trying to push through. This won't get passed. It's illegal. Sorry, I mean blatantly illegal. Trying to bully a major source of public information and discredit it is yet another deeply fascist action. It's insane. This only serves to make Trump look like a whiny little snowflake, crying because the big, bad Twitter left a note that said if you want to learn more on the subject and see what the truth was, click here -- and he can't take it. And if he can't take an asterisk that fact-checks him, how on earth can he handle a pandemic???! He can't handle a pandemic. So far, 103,330 Americans have died that we know of. There. Good. We got back on topic. That is what this is all about..
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