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Trump Slams Twitter For ‘Conservative Discrimination,’ Calls For Repeal of Section 230

RTM Staff by RTM Staff
November 28, 2020
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President Donald Trump blasted Twitter on Thursday night for allegedly making up the “trends” on their site and discriminating against conservatives.

“Twitter is sending out totally false ‘Trends’ that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world” Trump wrote. “They make it up, and only negative ‘stuff’. Same thing will happen to Twitter as is happening to @FoxNews daytime. Also, big Conservative discrimination!”

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Minutes later, Trump tweeted, “For purposes of National Security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!”

For purposes of National Security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2020

Section 230 of the U.S. Code, which protects social media companies from being treated as publishers, states:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.

The term “otherwise objectionable” has given license to sites such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter to censor material they find “otherwise objectionable.” This is critical, because it means that if those two words were removed from the Code, those sites could theoretically be open to legal liability for removal of content for political reasons.

Twitter and other Big Tech companies have come under fire for suppressing content, especially that which is unflattering to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s family. Some conservative lawmakers, such as Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have joined Trump in calling for Section 230 to be repealed.

Twitter has also repeatedly censored or flagged Trump’s tweets, especially his tweets in which he questions the results of the election.

Twitter offered the following vague criteria for censoring posts:

  • Misleading information — statements or assertions that have been confirmed to be false or misleading by subject-matter experts, such as public health authorities.
  • Disputed claims — statements or assertions in which the accuracy, truthfulness, or credibility of the claim is contested or unknown.
  • Unverified claims — information (which could be true or false) that is unconfirmed at the time it is shared.

This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.

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