The moderator's dilemma

摘要

HASTILY DRAFTED, legally flawed and unworkable. Experts poured scorn on the executive order Donald Trump signed on May 28th in reaction to a decision by Twitter, a microblogging service, to flag one of his tweets as unsubstantiated. The company had put warnings on a pair of tweets in which the president said: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent". Social-media firms are not liable in America for the content published on them, thanks to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Mr Trump seems to be arguing that if they do not remain-at least in his view-politically neutral, they should lose that protection.