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I guess somebody at the White House is reading HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330463

• bcoates 6y ago
  I don't get it, is there a legal obligation for twitter to follow its own terms of service? This EO seems to be a nothingburger, the courts have already established that the text of 230 creates broad immunity, they aren't going to defer to the FCC about that. Has the FTC even established that platforms have obligations towards their non-customer users?
  • rsynnott 6y ago
    > I don't get it, is there a legal obligation for twitter to follow its own terms of service? The ToS will be written to allow discretion; that is why Trump hasn't been banned.
• loopz 6y ago
  The parties use Big Data-mining in elections. There's no reason to expect otherwise outside of elections.
• mhh__ 6y ago
  It's a nice concept but I'm not sure it would work I don't doubt the US government could do that to an extent, but how much legal precedent is there for doing it? I find it very hard to believe that Twitter (and arguably many other companies in the sector, and possibly other tech companies too) wouldn't immediately lawyer up and challenge any thing like that. Not least because Twitter could start playing dirty too i.e. lobbying etc. Government decisions get challenged from inside the government (or own administration as seen from the migrant ban) let alone externally by legal teams with practically unlimited budgets (remember that the church of Scientology successfully "beat" the IRS)