At risk, the famous secrets-leaker explained is Trump’s ability to adequately communicate with the world via tweets.
“Dear @realDonaldTrump: ‘net neutrality’ of some form is important,” Assange tweeted Tuesday. “Your opponents control most internet companies. Without neutrality they can make your tweets load slowly, CNN load fast and infest everyone’s phones with their ads. Careful.”
The net neutrality laws prevent ISPs from charging more for certain services, like Netflix for instance, and blocks them from slowing down or advancing up content, which consumer advocates warn could be used by those ISPs to give their own content special treatment. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai argues that revoking net neutrality will be good for business innovation.
Trump often clashes with CNN, and other media outlets he believes “fake news.” The Trump government is currently suing one of the largest Internet service providers, AT&T, to in an attempt to prevent its purchase of Time Warner, which owns CNN.
Trump’s use of Twitter has become a contentious sticking point in American politics, as critics wail his often-inflammatory tweets, some of which are aimed at foreign leaders like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some watchdog organizations have also sued Trump over how he sometimes deletes tweets, which they say is infringing federal law by destroying federal records.
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