[EL] Twitter EO

[larrylevine at earthlink.net]

If I had predicted six months ago that armed thugs would have carried weapons into state houses in at least two states and not been hindered by state police or any other security agents, you would have said that was over the top. So tell me why the subject of this thread would be hard to imagine. Your operative word is “was”.

Larry

 

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Marty Lederman
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2020 3:02 AM
To: Nate Persily <npersily at law.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: [EL] Twitter EO

 

Breathtaking but of course it mostly amounts to directing Commerce to petition the FCC (within 30 days) for a proposed reg to "clarify" 230(c)(2)(A) law.  Even if Wilbur Ross does so, it's hard to imagine (or it was hard to imagine, anyway), the FCC doing anything with it.

 

In other words, it is (not surprisingly) a political document, intended to rile up the base.

 

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:41 AM Nate Persily <npersily at law.stanford.edu <mailto:npersily at law.stanford.edu> > wrote:

Attached is the draft of the Executive Order regarding removal of CDA 230 liability for Twitter and other internet platforms as well as encouragement of investigations of the Silicon Valley platforms.  Gotta say, this is truly breathtaking.   Eager to hear reactions from defenders of Citizens United on this.   

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