Subj : Re: Travel Ban?
To   : Nick Andre
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Sun May 31 2020 10:36 am

-=> Nick Andre wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

 NA> I really wish Trump would just lay off Twitter completely and
 NA> find a decentralized platform instead of advocating expansion of the
 NA> Communications Decency Act with that social-media order. I thought it
 NA> was really unnecessary and bad-timing.

It's called the "Chicken and egg" problem.

People go to Twitter because that's where the audience is.
The audience goes to Twitter because that's where the people they want to hear
are.

 NA> Maybe nobody will care too much with the MN riots and Biden gaffes but
 NA> one of the best things about conservative voices getting censored, is
 NA> that it really festers itself on re-tweets, Youtube complaints and
 NA> lesser-known news outlets getting some traction by covering this
 NA> disturbing trend.

 NA> Trump has it within him to really expose the level of deep-nested
 NA> corruption of the mass media but effectively shot himself in the foot
 NA> here. If he is in fact worth 2 billion to Twitter, he could screw them
 NA> overnight by orchestrating his own "walk away" movement.

I think he sees much more value in letting Twitter "hang themselves".

He's already baited Twitter into being the publisher that they are.  Now the
Executive Order is signed to have the FCC evaluate and remove Section 230
protections from Twitter.

Hopefully we will see a flood of law suites (justified or not, it makes no
difference) shortly after that and Twitter collapses in a pile of unpaid legal
bills.

That will send a strong message to the other sites that have Section 230
protections to clean up their act.

.... I tried to drown my sorrows, but they can swim.
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