FCC's O'Rielly Musters A Tiny Bit Of Courage To Almost Acknowledge Trump's Executive Order Is Unenforceable Gibberish

FCC's O'Rielly Musters A Tiny Bit Of Courage To Almost Acknowledge Trump's Executive Order Is Unenforceable Gibberish

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200615/13295144714/fccs-orielly-musters-tiny-bit-courage-to-almost-acknowledge-trumps-executive-order-is-unenforceable-gibberish.shtml

So we've already noted how Trump's executive order governing social media is a load of fluff and nonsense. Like most brain farts that stumble out of the head of the current president, there's been a lot of breathless hyperventilation about what the executive order means, despite the fact the order itself is largely indecipherable gibberish. You can't ignore the rule of law and the Constitution via executive order, and the order's underlying justification (that social media outlets disproportionately target Conservatives) is, and has always been, unsupportable bullshit.

Initially, at least, buried under the din of confusion was the fact that the order effectively just shovels the onus over to the FCC and FTC to enforce the unenforceable. To be very clear: while the order demands the FCC "expeditiously propose regulations" to crack down on social media websites, in absolutely no universe do they have the authority to do this.