By shrugging off the tweet as simply political gamesmanship on the president’s part, Mr. Scarborough, his own infliction of emotional distress claim may be weaker than Mr. And they caused severe emotional distress - the protracted, daily-felt grief described in Mr. They were intentional and reckless, and were “extreme and outrageous” without a scintilla of evidence to support them. This tort, which is sometimes called “outrage,” readily applies to Mr. Trump’s first tort is called intentional infliction of emotional distress, which the courts developed precisely to condemn wanton cruelty to another person who suffers emotionally as a result. Peter Schuck is an emeritus professor of law at Yale: Opinion: Trump’s ‘horrifying lies’ about Lori Klausutis may cross a legal line Meanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died in the US amid utter disorganisation at the federal level over pandemic planning, replete with grifting, lies, and idiocy. Plenty of analysis to be had: hitting social media will harm Trump (because Twitter will have to censor more, not less heavily) section 230 author says the EO is ‘plainly illegal’ the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity say it’s counterproductive FCC commissioners say it won’t work. Read the final EO it’s still a legal nonsense. It’s very much written in a way to make Trump’s fans think he’s done something to attack social media companies, but the deeper you dig, the more nothingness you find. But also, because the executive order only has limited power, there’s a lot of huffing and puffing in there for very little actual things that the administration can do. It’s also blatantly anti-free speech, anti-private property, pro-big government – which is only mildly amusing, given that Trump and his sycophantic followers like to insist they’re the opposite of all of those things. This executive order attempts to do both. You can’t overrule the law by executive order, nor can you ignore the Constitution. To be clear: the executive order is nonsense. This one is somewhat different than drafts that have been floated in the past, though it has the same origins (and, according to a few people I spoke to, this new executive order was “hastily drafted” to appease an angry President who can’t stand the idea that someone might correct his nonsense)… However, it apparently took Twitter literally doing nothing more than linking to people arguing that Trump’s tweets were misleading, to cause our President to throw a total shit fit and finally break out the executive order. For the past two years now, every so often, reports have come out that the White House was exploring issuing an executive order trying to attack Section 230 and punish companies for the administration’s belief in the myth that content moderation practices at large social media firms are “biased” against conservatives. We’ve officially reached pure silly season when it comes to internet regulations. The two things to understand about Trump’s executive order on social media: (1) it’s a distraction (2) it’s legally meaningless Now, Dougal, this tweet is far away… I’m on Twitter. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam.Ī selection of 11 links for you. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. Yes, we might as well discuss the Trump nonsense CC-licensed photo by on Flickr.
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