06-10-2020, 04:16 PM
Maybe you’ve heard about the supposed fight between “twitter president” Donald Trump and Twitter. Much to do about nothing, but it did lead to a new presidential Executive Order.
Our wonderful media have reported that it’s either about protecting free speech or censorship.
In the Executive Order this is described as follows:
First a draft EO was leaked, but the final Executive Order was substantially altered and includes the following troubling policy proposals:
It will take another 60 days before the Secretary of Commerce (Wilbur Ross) with Attorney General (Bill Barr) will ask the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose regulations. Congress can still veto this proposal and a court could also strike it down: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21273...lysis-bias
I’m more surprised that it took so long (in the third year of Donald’s presidency) than that this was done.
I’ve posted on the connections from the Trump/Kushner crime syndicate to steel barons that make less profit because of some silly environmental concerns before.
On 4 June, President Donald signed an Executive Order (EO) that allows federal agencies to ignore regulations from the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act on new large infrastructure projects.
At the same time, Donald’s Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new rule that would circumvent the Clean Air Act so they can ignore public health in their cost-benefit analyses.
President Donald’s 4 June EO could be used to approve new pipelines, highways and mines.
President Donald is using an “emergency” declaration to help those “poor” owners of (amongst others) mines through the COVID-19 “pandemic”. Maybe this is another reason to keep the “pandemic” going for as long as Donald can...
Some argue that poor communities (including non-whites) will disproportionally become the victim of bypassing regulation like this. There are more stories on the environmental damage that this will cause than criticism of the Trump administration and their obvious conflict of interests.
Lauren Pagel of Earthworks Policy commented:
Our wonderful media have reported that it’s either about protecting free speech or censorship.
In the Executive Order this is described as follows:
Quote:Websites of any size should lose all Section 230 protections if they don’t follow their terms of service or provide sufficient notice when removing contentAs the EO is aimed at “any website or application that allows users to create and share content or engage in social networking, or any general search engine”, it could be used against the small forums that go “too” far in allowing “free speech”, which is the opposite as what President Donald claims (protecting free speech).
First a draft EO was leaked, but the final Executive Order was substantially altered and includes the following troubling policy proposals:
Quote:The Attorney General should judge whether any websites receiving advertising money from the government are “problematic vehicles for government speech” because of “viewpoint discrimination”This could very well be the main reason for this EO, as this gives Donald’s AG William Barr the authority to decide which websites will receive money from the government. This could be especially important in an election year!
The Federal Trade Commission should investigate websites for deceptive advertising based on their terms of service
It will take another 60 days before the Secretary of Commerce (Wilbur Ross) with Attorney General (Bill Barr) will ask the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose regulations. Congress can still veto this proposal and a court could also strike it down: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21273...lysis-bias
I’m more surprised that it took so long (in the third year of Donald’s presidency) than that this was done.
I’ve posted on the connections from the Trump/Kushner crime syndicate to steel barons that make less profit because of some silly environmental concerns before.
On 4 June, President Donald signed an Executive Order (EO) that allows federal agencies to ignore regulations from the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act on new large infrastructure projects.
At the same time, Donald’s Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new rule that would circumvent the Clean Air Act so they can ignore public health in their cost-benefit analyses.
President Donald’s 4 June EO could be used to approve new pipelines, highways and mines.
President Donald is using an “emergency” declaration to help those “poor” owners of (amongst others) mines through the COVID-19 “pandemic”. Maybe this is another reason to keep the “pandemic” going for as long as Donald can...
Some argue that poor communities (including non-whites) will disproportionally become the victim of bypassing regulation like this. There are more stories on the environmental damage that this will cause than criticism of the Trump administration and their obvious conflict of interests.
Lauren Pagel of Earthworks Policy commented:
Quote:President Trump is exploiting a global pandemic to further marginalize voices calling for a more just and equitable society. Today's Executive Order is another example in far too long a list of how this Administration runs roughshod over our basic values: an attempt to deliberately silence people in decisions that immediately impact their lives.https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/870098279...-emergency
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549