{"id":387775,"date":"2018-12-04T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-to-censor\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:13:11","slug":"prison-planet-com-usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-to-censor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-to-censor\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb USMCA Entrenches Tech Companies\u2019 Right To Censor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/12\/03\/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-censor\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 4, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump hailed the trade agreement he signed with Mexico and Canada last week as \u201cgreat for all our countries.\u201d Perhaps he doesn\u2019t know that the NAFTA-replacing trade agreement, USMCA, gives tech giants in Silicon Valley a special legal privilege to censor his own supporters \u2014 and anyone else they find \u201cobjectionable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube all engaged in pre-election censorship against Republicans and Trump supporters. Yet they\u2019ve managed to sneak a liability protection into President Trump\u2019s trade bill that would make it even easier for them to censor their own users.<\/p>\n<p>USMCA entrenches the tech giants\u2019 legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grant them legal immunity for user-generated content. This is an important part of the law that allows tech platforms to host a wide variety of speech with light-touch moderation.<\/p>\n<p>But USMCA also entrenches tech companies\u2019 right to\u00a0<em>censor\u00a0<\/em>without liability. Article 19.17 of the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/ustr.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/agreements\/FTA\/USMCA\/Text\/19_Digital_Trade.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">trade agreement<\/a> gives tech companies immunity from any lawsuits arising from actions taken to \u201crestrict material it considers to be harmful or objectionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/12\/03\/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-censor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, December 4, 2018  at  7:50 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-to-censor.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-to-censor.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartDecember 4, 2018 President Trump hailed the trade agreement he signed with Mexico and Canada last week as \u201cgreat for all our countries.\u201d Perhaps he doesn\u2019t know that the NAFTA-replacing trade agreement, USMCA, gives tech giants in Silicon Valley a special legal privilege to censor his own supporters \u2014 and anyone else they find \u201cobjectionable.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}