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Social Media Executive Order

dumber than a box of hair said:
You really just have to laugh at these buffoons. Aren’t these conservatives the same ones who killed “net neutrality” so they could have an advantage?
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Exactly. They hated it when the Dems wanted the FCC to oversee the internet. It's in the Republican platform. But now they want the FCC to regulate social media. They may have to change the law they passed in 2017 to get that to happen.
 
TheBigA said:
TikToc is gaining popularity in the USA and could play a part in influencing the election.
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They’ve already started. They took credit for all the empty seats at Trump’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday night. They put up a fake sign-up page for admission to the rally and signed up lots of people who had no intention of showing up.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Mr. Trump and Mr. Zuckerberg had met just once before the dinner, an Oval Office encounter last September. Afterward, the president boasted about his giant following on the platform. But October was a hot political month at Facebook: Mr. Zuckerberg was in an open battle with a leading Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was threatening to break up Facebook and whom he called “an existential threat” to the company. The morning of their dinner, a top British official demanded answers on why Facebook would tolerate false political advertising.

Mr. Zuckerberg, a Facebook executive said, seems to view Mr. Trump as a peer. By contrast, he told amused top aides at one of his regular Monday meetings in March that Mr. Kushner was calling him so often about help with the administration’s coronavirus response that he couldn’t keep up, two people familiar with the meeting said. (“Mark does not think of himself as a peer to this president or any president,” a Facebook spokesman, Tucker Bounds, said, adding that Mr. Zuckerberg had initiated the conversation with Mr. Kushner about the coronavirus response.)

Mr. Zuckerberg has played the high-stakes and unpredictable politics of the Trump years as well as any other corporate executive. And a week before the dinner last October, he made clear in a speech that his interests and the president’s aligned: Mr. Zuckerberg would reject a growing movement to limit the false or inflammatory statements of the American president.
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Facebook connections to the President is examined here.
 
TheBigA said:
The president and republicans are focusing their attention on US-owned social media. But the bigger problem may be coming from China:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally/index.html

TikToc is gaining popularity in the USA and could play a part in influencing the election.

How can the federal government regulate social media based in China?
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https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/24/trump-tulsa-rally-tik-tok-joanna-weiss

Apparently the group that did this on Tik Tok is based in Iowa and it's leader is running the TikTok Grandma page that organized the empty seats in Oklahoma.


https://deadline.com/2020/06/tiktok...-social-justice-growth-trajectory-1202969939/

If congress and the President wants to go after Tik Tok, they would go after Kevin Mayer given that he has been appointed by the board as CEO of Tik Tok . In reality the management of Tik Tok is in the USA But their investors are in China.
 
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/t...pmEyYN1XIPwNyVLO7GnDQX2RUK-eCAxrReLNWQGlwWSHq

Reddit has banned posts in relation to the President.


That news follows the recent ban of the massive The_Donald subreddit, which sported more than 790,000 users, largely devoted to sharing content about Trump. Reddit confirmed the update to its policy that resulted in the ban, along with 2,000 other subreddits, including one devoted to the hugely popular leftist comedy podcast, Chapo Trap House.

The company cites the following new rules:

Rule 1 explicitly states that communities and users that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.
There is an expanded definition of what constitutes a violation of this rule, along with specific examples, in our Help Center article.
Rule 2 ties together our previous rules on prohibited behavior with an ask to abide by community rules and post with authentic, personal interest.
Debate and creativity are welcome, but spam and malicious attempts to interfere with other communities are not.
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https://www.kgns.tv/2020/07/08/face...-to-roger-stone-hate-group-brazils-president/

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook on Wednesday said it has removed dozens of accounts linked to the hate group Proud Boys, to President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone and to employees of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, among others.

A network tied to both Stone and the Proud Boys had fake accounts post about local politics in Florida, as well as Stone’s books, websites and media appearances, Facebook said. Stone’s own Facebook and Instagram accounts were also banned.

“Roger Stone’s personal accounts and his branded assets will be coming down as part of this network,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, in a call with reporters. “Because we saw them deeply enmeshed in the activities here.”

Facebook said these accounts were most active from 2015 to 2017 and most have been dormant since.
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Now the facebook accounts connected to the president of Brazil and Presiden Trump have been removed due to TOS.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Facebook connections to the President is examined here.
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U.S. big business is generally pro-Trump/GOP. One can't get much bigger in the Social Media space than Facebook.

Most big businesses won't publicly say they're supportive of the tax benefits and deregulation brought on by this Administration, but behind the scenes, they're totally on board. It hasn't been until large advertisers started jumping ship over controversial comments, did Facebook develop a serious optics problem.
 
TheBigA said:
Today the president moved forward on his plan to regulate social media. He directed the FCC to come up with a set of rules:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/tech/fcc-social-media-petition/index.html

Yet back in 2017, his own government sought to remove regulation of the internet from the responsibilities of the FCC.

This is how far we've come in just 3 years.
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That's great until one looks at newly-popular sites like Tik Tok and Twitch, which are all run from outside the US. (Tik Tok-China) What is the FCC going to do, start blocking sites within the US public Internet? That's about the time we continue down the path of an autocracy. Just because The Leader is upset with certain social media companies, those will be blocked? Good luck with that...
 
What they also miss is that this economy is being driven by one thing right now: technology. It's the one thing unaffected by covid. They could be killing the only bright spot we have. These social media sites are hiring people, letting them work from home, and the sites gives the unemployed something to do. You take a look at FAANG, and they're the only companies not looking for a federal handout.
 
I still don't quite know what form those regulations take. "On trending topics, the President shall always be number one" "If the President touts an unproven cure for any disease, it shall be shown to every user".


TheBigA said:
What they also miss is that this economy is being driven by one thing right now: technology. It's the one thing unaffected by covid. They could be killing the only bright spot we have. These social media sites are hiring people, letting them work from home, and the sites gives the unemployed something to do. You take a look at FAANG, and they're the only companies not looking for a federal handout.
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TheBigA said:
What they also miss is that this economy is being driven by one thing right now: technology.
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And so now Microsoft is working with POTUS (loose terms) to purchase TikTok:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/tech/microsoft-tiktok/index.html

What I said about big companies being supportive of Trump? POTUS-mad-POTUS-smash about kids following other kids on TikTok to grab-up Trump Oklahoma rally tickets, threatens to ban TikTok from the US. Instead, Trump and Microsoft come up with a plan for MSFT to buy TikTok from the Chinese. So Microsoft gives some software guys in China, millions or billions of USD to placate the Pres?

Come on!
 
Kelly A said:
So Microsoft gives some software guys in China, millions or billions of USD to placate the Pres?
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Exactly. Plus the pres wants a commission on the sale. I'm sure the Big 4 would have loved to buy Tik Tok, but not after last week's hearings.
 
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