"Without Section 230, these companies could be sued for their users' blog posts, social media ramblings or homemade online videos." According to a draft, the White House order states that "we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the speech that Americans may access and convey online. "Section 230 protects the comments section on a retiree's baking blog as much as it protects Facebook," says Matthew Feeny of the libertarian Cato Institute. Some say Trump and others are distorting the First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government interference with private expression, as well as Section 230. "The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump -- not Trump from Twitter," says Ashkhen Kazaryan of the think tank Tech Freedom.

Source: Bangkok Post May 28, 2020 20:26 UTC