“President Trump’s executive order to blow up Section 230 and censor the Internet is deeply silly and blatantly violates the First Amendment.”
She continued:
“[…] but it’s just one among a series of similarly nonsensical proposals that would kill off the law that makes the best parts of the Internet possible. If one of these attacks succeed it could shut down enormous swaths of the Internet and lead to widespread censorship of our videos, photos, discussions, and opinions.”
Do your part to Save Online Free Speech
The FCC has opened a comment period where anybody can show support or voice resistance to the executive order. Unsurprisingly, those that support censorship on the internet have already started piling in astroturf comments. So far, TechDirt has noted that these astroturf comment attacks have been backed by AT&T while the Daily Dot has noted anti-LGBTQ rights group doing the same. Honestly, the comment period is looking a lot like the FCC’s comment period on net neutrality where astroturf comments against net neutrality seemed to outweigh legitimate grassroots comments – allowing the FCC’s Ajit Pai to pretend like he cared about the comment process for public input. The FCC public comment period on the “Censor the Internet” executive order ends on September 17th. It’s up to you to Save Online Free Speech – and right now it’s easy to do your part, visit the website and leave your official comment with the FCC.
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