Donald's Trying to Take the Internet Down With Him

[Nevilledog]

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John Nichols
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Trump remains a danger to democracy. He’s targeting the Internet with threats so draconian that experts say, “If the FCC grants the administration’s proposal, no websites or platforms would be able to set their own standards for their online communities.”

Donald’s Trying to Take the Internet Down With Him
A sore-loser president is promoting a last-minute assault on the underpinnings of discourse on the web.
thenation.com

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-section-230/

Donald Trump has lost the popular vote by more than 6.25 million ballots. Court decisions, recounts, and state certifications have confirmed that the Republican secured just 232 electoral votes to 306 for Democrat Joe Biden. Despite Trump’s false claim that “the 2020 Election was a total scam,” he’s on his way out of office.

Unfortunately, a slow process of transition allows lame-duck presidents to do great damage during the two and a half months between Election Day in November and Inauguration Day in January, and Trump is already at it. But the greatest danger the soon-to-be-former president poses may be to the honest discourse that remains the lifeblood of American democracy: a free press.

Trump’s presidency can be understood as a four-year assault on journalism, in which he has attacked individual reporters, newspapers, and television news networks with a fury that was evident on Thanksgiving Day, when he held a deranged press conference—while seated at a “kid’s table” desk—and started ranting in response to Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason’s question about when Trump might finally concede his loss. “Don’t talk to me that way,” raged Trump. “You’re just a lightweight. Don’t talk to me [like] that—I’m the president of the United States. Don’t ever talk to the president that way.”

Trump’s tantrum produced a mocking Twitter hashtag—#DiaperDon—that trended to the top of social media and embarrassed the egomaniacal president to such an extent that he snapped and raged—falsely: “Twitter is sending out totally false ‘Trends;’ that have absolutely nothing to do with what is really trending in the world. They make it up, and only negative ‘stuff.’” Then he tweeted something that should unsettle everyone who understands the role of social media in modern political communications: “For purposes of National Security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!”

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[58Sunliner]

1. Sick f**k.

“For purposes of National Security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!”
Or he will rage, rage hard at the mockery of #DiaperDon. His insecurity, is a matter of national security, and he demands we stop laughing at him now.

[Hortensis]

2. He's famously vindictive, as a principle, and the American

people have been betraying him from the beginning, long before we failed to show for his inauguration. So I've suspected he's been using his power to hurt people in general, both punitively and just because it feels good, all along.