Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 08:10:50

-=> Mike Powell wrote to ROB MCCART <=-

 > There seems to be a surprising amount of control over the news there.

 MP> There did not used to be.  IMHO, there is more now than there has been
 MP> in a while, but it did not really start with Trump.  The Biden admin
 MP> colluded with social media platforms to make sure certain things were
 MP> quashed, for example.

 I heard yesterday that the Trump admin is going after Section 230 of
 the Communications Decency Act. I'm OK with that - I go way back on the
 opinion that if you act as a common carrier, and present messages as
 they're posted in a chronological feed, you should have some protection
 as you can claim that you don't have editorial review.

 As soon as you tweak feeds according to an algorithm to overly reflect
 one side of a issue or the other to manipulate your audience and
 maximize revenues, all bets are off.

 And don't give me Facebook calling it an existential threat...

 What is interesting is that despite all of the shock-and-awe this
 administration seems to favor - think of all of the funding they've cut
 off with little review - they're giving the social networks until 2027
 to deal with it.

 Interesting, removing Section 230 right before an election.

 That also gives the administration a lot of time to shake down the
 other social networks (not X, of course)





 > Something we rarely seem to see here are politicians attacking news
 > stories. They may come out and try to defend against negative news
 > about them but blame it on inaccuracy rather than on 'lying reporters'.

 > The odd negative thing there seems to get Trump looking for ways
 > to shut down news services, or at least fire reporters.. Sort of
 > like what he wants to do with Judges that rule against him..   B)

 MP> Thinking back, I actually don't think that Trump was even the first one
 MP> to blame "lying reporters."  He is probably the most likely to actually
 MP> phrase it that way, but IIRC, Obama may have done it, Hillary Clinton
 MP> certainly did, and Biden (after 2016 Trump, I know) also did at times.


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