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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

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Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him....

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30560295

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      Because the platform owners don’t have to play by the same rules?

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        ‘Just get a bot and “ctrl+a, del” the entire site contents’

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    And all presidents since Bush (I think) have supported FISA Section 702, among other terrible and unconstitutional laws and executive orders that each president wants. Let’s not make this about Trump but rather how corrupt the US government has been and continues to be

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