The only real questions are: (1) whether it's just more hot air and someone will talk his wannabe dicatator ass down, (2) if it does what he threatens, how quickly courts will smack it down, (3) just how small (one hopes) the probability is that law enforcement would enforce it despite court decisions smacking it down
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order aimed at social media companies on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Wednesday evening, a move that comes as the president and his allies have escalated their allegations that companies like Twitter and Facebook stifle GOP voices. McEnany told reporters aboard Air Force One that the order is “pertaining to social media” but shared no additional details on what it will do. Trump and his supporters have been hammering Twitter since the social network labeled a pair of his tweets with a fact-checking notice for the first time on Tuesday, and the president pledged Wednesday that "big action" will follow.
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Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor - POLITICO
Trump Will Sign an Executive Order on Social Media Companies: White House Spokeswoman - The New York Times
Earlier Wednesday, Trump warned social media giants that the federal government could “strongly regulate” or “close them down” if they continue to “silence conservative voices,” amid his flaring battle with Twitter after the platform fact-checked one of his tweets for the first time this week.
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White House says Trump will sign an executive order on social media | Fox News
The media companies engaged in political speech - the core of first amendment protections against government punishment/interference, the core of which in turn is protection against actions based on content of speech - to punish the lot and cow others because twitter fact-checked his constant lies in tweets. They would be free under the 1st to delete his account. But they didn't. Twitter just put a fact checker on his tweets because he keeps lying. Now he's saying he's going to sign an EO targeting them.
That's right. Twitter stood on its first amendment right to engage in political speech against government (Trump being leader of the executive branch of
government, the authority of which these so-called conservatives pretend to stand against)). And a leader of one of government's branches is squawking about signing an unspecified executive order targeting social media because of this.
Will Trumpists cheer this on? Defend it? Will the usual suspects line up with diversions in the first ten posts? Let's see what the order contains and what they say. If it's like most things Trump, it'll be 100% bark, 0% bite. The announcement tests the waters. He'll spend tomorrow morning watching Fox instead of working. And then we'll see.
But more importantly, let's see what Trumpists will do
as compared to what they say.
I know my bet: the most ardent will straight-up defend it, lying about first amendment jurisprudence in the process. A good number will pretend to criticize it, saying they "don't like it" or "don't agree", but not one of them will change their minds. At most, if a miracle strikes, there will be some words. No action.
So let us see what really happens, and when we do:
Remember when they pretend to care about America.
Remember when they pretend to love the constitution.
Remember when they chest-thump about their freedoms.
And always remember that actions so often speak far louder than words every could.