Trump threatens to crack down on social media platforms

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(05-28-2020, 04:02 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Here's where Trump haters run into problems.  Just because he's a buffoon doesn't mean he's always completely off point.  Social media has protections based on the assumption that they are a platform for the views of others, not a content creator.  If you are a platform then you need to be an equal opportunity platform, much like the baker who was censured for not making a gay wedding cake your rules must apply equally.  If you are not enforcing terms of service in an equal manner than you are, by definition, discriminating, something  I think we can all agree is wrong.  That this is actually happening has been demonstrated on numerous occasions; e.g. person reports tweet flaming men and said tweet is not censured.  Same person tweets exact same quote replacing "men" with "women" and is censured.  I absolutely understand that there is a human element to this but I think there is a very credible argument to be made that TOS is not equally applied on many social media platforms.

A broken clock is right twice a day.  Trump is like a slow clock that is right every couple years.

I haven't read anything that said he can do this or that he's even close to right in his "reasoning".

Trump only cares about himself...that's is why he wants to use his position as POTUS to try and force things he isn't legally allowed to force based on his complete misunderstanding of law.  IF Twitter and "censored" a democrat he'd be heaping praise.  Just like with the Flynn decision...if it was something that was going to be used for every case it would have some weight but it won't be.  

One doesn't have to a "hater" to simply point out he's being petulent and  wrong.  Again.