Will he be able to lie his ass off on his own platform, or will there be some laws in place to muzzle him ?
Suppose he starts going on about how the election was stolen and gets everyone all lathered up; will there be any consequences for lying ?
I hope they call it Twump. (Twitter+Trump)
I’m sure there’ll be rules against “fake news” which means they’ll censor anything that Trump doesn’t like.
Nah, I think Trash is a better term: TRump ASsHole.
Anything he raises on his new platform, will easily be taken up and soundly trashed on Twitter and he won’t be able to rebut it. That’s got to work in everyone’s favour, I should think.
But I can’t help thinking this new platform will be ready a couple of weeks after that healthcare plan he’s been promising, by next week, for over four years! HaHa!
He’ll stand up a platform, he’ll say everything he’s said all along, it will be hacked mercilessly. Lather Rinse Repeat.
Trump will convince other people to put up the money to get this venture started (if it gets started at all). He’ll pay himself a licensing fee for the use of the Trump name, another fee for consulting, and whatever else he can get away with. Those checks will be good. Then the site will go bankrupt and the investors will be screwed.
Someone on Twitter said it should be called “Mein Space”.
Whatever he sets up the password will be a variation of “you’re fired”. He will get hacked even before the platform goes life.
Nah, he’ll probably just reuse the ‘MAGA2020!’ password he used for his twitter account. Well, updated to ‘MAGA2024!’.
The only possible consequence would be suits for defamation, as Dominion is using against the people who lied about them. Those are expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to prove.
Otherwise, no. What possible law do you think is on what books that makes it a crime to lie? What court hear crimes against the truth? You Honor, I charge this man with a 609, a 443, and a 1362. For the jurors, that’s a fib, a fabrication, and a prevarication in the second degree. The penalties are fines up to a dollar and 30 days without pizza.
Big win for the FBI, will make tracking white nationalist terrorists much easier.
He’s gotta get someone to host it.
I’m not convinced he’s really entrepreneurial enough to come up with a platform on his own. His multi-million dollar air hooptie is sitting in a fucking NYC area hangar collecting dust. Methinks he’s what we thought he was all along: a fake billionaire, who can’t do shit businesswise but knows how to scam people and perpetually falls/fails forward doing it.
The latter is clearly a violation of the 8th amendment. You can’t deny a person pizza.
My thought is that I doubt anyone that has the skills to set up a ‘Trump Social Media Platform’ is also smart enough to know that they will likely not be paid.
On the other hand, someone might do it for the lulz, and insert LOTS, AND LOTS of Easter eggs and auto-corrects. And as someone else said, It would be hacked constantly.
An interesting insight.
In two weeks, indeed.
Someone else said it would be called “Assbook.”
But as Hari_Seldon posted: Trump needs to find some one willing to host such a site. Yet to attract subscribers, he will have to permit 8-chan levels of threatening posts-and-memes against the usual targets (Hillary, Nancy, etc.)
These two needs are mutually exclusive.
Pizza is nature’s most perfect food.
I usually don’t advocate for a like button on the SDMB but I miss having one right now. 
It’s a crime to lie to a gov’t agent or law officer, of course. Otherwise, there’s no law against lying that I know of – But – lying isn’t protected speech either.
From a mid-1980’s case that went to the Supreme Court (sorry, no cite, I’m citing this from memory of the news at the time):
- Gay man applies for job on an oil rig in the Gulf.
- They ask him if he is gay.
- He denies it.
- He gets the job.
- Somehow, the management then learns he’s gay.
- They fire him.
- Ex-employee sues employer for wrongful termination.
- Company says they didn’t fire him for being gay, they fired him for lying at his interview.
- Case makes its way up to the Supreme Court.
- Court finds in favor of the employer, saying that employee has no constitutionally protected right to lie.