District Court Rejects CDT's Challenge Of Trump's Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230

District Court Rejects CDT's Challenge Of Trump's Ridiculous Executive Order On Section 230

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201213/22190945875/district-court-rejects-cdts-challenge-trumps-ridiculous-executive-order-section-230.shtml

Back in May, you may recall, Donald Trump issued his silly executive order on Section 230 in response to Twitter adding a couple fact checks to blatant conspiracy theory nonsense that Trump was posting. A week later, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) sued over the executive order, arguing that it was unconstitutional, and clearly retaliatory against Twitter.

When CDT filed the lawsuit I noted that the big question would be whether or not CDT could show standing in order to challenge the order, as it would be harder to prove that it impacted CDT directly. CDT argued that because the executive order would divert its attention and resources away from other, more important, fights regarding free speech online and government surveillance, it injured the organization.