President Donald Trump approved an executive order this week that asks federal officials to hold social media sites accountable for censoring some political posts.
According to The Christian Post, Trump said the sites are not a “neutral platform.”
“Today, I am signing an executive order to protect and uphold the free speech and rights of the American people,” Trump said at a briefing in the Oval Office. “Currently, social media giants, like Twitter, receive an unprecedented liability shield based on the theory that they are a neutral platform, which they are not.”
The 1996 Communications Decency Act Section 230 says that social media platforms are not liable for the content that people publish, including possibly defamatory posts. Trump’s executive order revises the 1996 act.
“My executive order calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield,” Trump said. “That’s a pretty big deal.”
Trump said when social media sites decide to edit or remove postings, they are making “editorial decisions.”
“In those moments, Twitter ceases to be a neutral public platform and they become an editor with a viewpoint,” Trump said.
Under the order, Trump asks the Secretary of Commerce, the attorney…
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