The US President Donald Trump decided to block the defense budget with sanctions against the gas pipeline ” Nord Stream 2 “, which was agreed by both chambers of Congress, due to the position on social networks. The leader of the state wrote about this in Twitter .
“It’s very sad for our country. (…) Very bad for our national security and election integrity. The last chance to solve this. I will use VETO,” Trump wrote.
In his opinion, it is necessary to abolish Article 230 of the Law on Decency in Messages in the budget, which endangers the elections and national security. According to this clause, social networks are not responsible for user comments, while they can make changes to them. Trump and his administration are in favor of holding sites accountable for censorship.
After the US presidential election, Twitter marked many of Trump’s posts as “containing lies” or blocked them. The social networks themselves claim that they do not suppress anyone’s points of view, but they limit or remove content that violates their rules. At the same time, the leaders of states and parties fall under the patronage of some companies, for example, Twitter.