Donald trump on Thursday intends to sign “a hard decree on social networks,” said Reuters the White house. The American President threatened to shut down sites it accused of suppressing conservative votes. Officials have not provided the Agency with any details. It is unclear how trump intends to close or limit the activities of private companies, including Twitter. The company declined to comment.
Recall that on Tuesday, Twitter was first noted as “unfounded” the message of the trump of fraud when voting by mail with a warning that motivate readers to actual verification of information. “The Republicans believe that social media platforms completely drowning out the voices of conservatives. We will strictly regulate them or close them, before we can allow this to happen in the future” – trump wrote in comments to the decision of Twitter.
President of the United States, an active Twitter user with more than 80 million subscribers, has appealed to the leadership of the company with a stark warning to remove the designation of the published message. According to him, social networks are doing everything possible for censorship in advance of the November presidential election. “If that happens, we won’t have freedom” – wrote the head of the White house on Wednesday evening.
Note that the panel of three judges of the U.S. court of Appeals in Washington on Wednesday upheld the denial of the claim of conservative groups and individuals the right wing against Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple, accusing these companies allegedly conspired to suppress conservative political views. In addition, in an interview with Fox News channel, the head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that the censorship of the platform will not “correct action” for the White house, concerned by the actions of the technological companies on the Internet.
the American civil liberties Union has stated that the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution restricts any actions that could be taken by trump. Facebook and Google declined to comment. Apple also did not respond to a request for comment. The Internet Association, which includes Twitter and Facebook, said that the online platform does not have a political bias and suggest that “a significant number of people to be heard more than ever in history.”
meanwhile, according to experts, in recent years, Twitter has tightened its policy amid criticism that its “methods of interference” allowed “to flourish with fake accounts and the wave of misinformation”. Technology companies accused by critics of anti-competition practices and breach of confidentiality of user data. Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon face antitrust investigations by Federal and authorities of the several States and of the Commission on information flooritike of Congress.
In turn, the lawmakers-Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol hill in conjunction with the U.S. Department of justice consider amending section 230 of the American law on supervision in the sphere of communications. This Federal law largely as observers, free online platform from legal liability for content posted by their users. Such changes can expose technology companies to a greater number of lawsuits. On Wednesday, Republican Senator Josh Hawley, an implacable critic of American technology companies sent a letter to the Director General of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, which asked why the company should continue to receive legal immunity after the “edit tweets President trump”.
According to Reuters, the coronavirus as of Wednesday evening, led to the deaths of more than 100 thousand people in the United States. On average, about 1,400 Americans die every day from COVID-19. Three months from the coronavirus Americans killed more than during the Korean war, the Vietnam war and the conflict in Iraq in 2003-2011 combined, the Agency said. The total number of cases of coronavirus in the United States exceeds 1.7 million, and worldwide has exceeded 5.6 million.
