A black man killed in Police CustodyInternational Condemnation grows as china imposes new security laws in hong kong the legislation could roll out within weeks and confined to their homes the argentinean shanty town where hundreds of people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Yard. He was President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Legal Protections of social Media Companies its in response to twitter labeling 2 of this tweets misleading and referring users to a Fact Checking page from says the order would remove the liability shield that Internet Companies currently enjoy he also said the choices twitter makes when it edits or blacklists people are editorial positions and nothing more then political activism. Had unchecked power to censor restrict and shape i alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences there is no president in American History for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of Human Interaction and that includes individual people controlling vest amounts of territory and we cant allow that to happen. Michaela is live in washington d. C. For so mike just explain this to us its president from said the order would remove the liabilities shield that Internet Companies currently enjoy which basically is why twitter and facebook arent treated like newspapers or t. V. Stations that are actually liable for what people say on their platforms so how does that impact the way the people would use a social media and what else the president say about this. Well President Trump is focusing on section 230. 00 of the Communications Decency act which essentially shields social Media Companies from legal liability for what 3rd party people put on their websites but it also gives them a cover should they choose to moderate those sites in good faith as twitter says it did with regard to fact shifting President Trumps tweets and certainly this continues to absolutely anger the president the fact that his tweets were in fact fact checked and saying as well one of the reporters asked him well why dont you simply delete your tweets and the president said well if we had a free press i would do so in a heartbeat but President Trump is also directed the federal Communications Commission to look into amending that act to that part of the act section 230. 00 hes also directed his attorney general william barr to look into claims of conservative bias in social media and as well in what is clearly a financial stab at social Media Companies hes instructed all federal agencies to review their ad spend on social media platforms but the bottom line here is that despite these threats despite this executive order its up to congress to amend any act it is not up to the f. C. C. And should the f. C. C. Do so it will certainly receive a very strong challenge in court and so might does this mean that its unlikely that anything will change for the social Media Companies. Well very much so because as i say this is a matter for congress to decide now should congress decide to rewrite this legislation then yes those legal liability shields could be taken away but that is up to congress to do not the president in an executive order now the courts as well have repeatedly ruled against the claims of conservative bias in the media most recently the very powerful federal court here in d. C. Threw out a case arguing that the bias against conservatism was an abrogation of free speech courts throughout the country have repeated this type of judgment so its very difficult to see where president can go from here in terms of his battle against the social media certainly theres a lot of sound and fury certainly theres intense criticism from the president certainly hes put his attorney general on to the whole matter once again a kind of threat it would appear but bottom line is the president does not have the power to amend this legislation that is in the hands of congress it is not in the hands of the f. C. C. So theyre difficult to see any success in the legal challenge and very difficult to see unless Congress Changes it and that social media platforms will change the way they operate unless they give in to the threats from the white house were going to be looking at the legal potential implications of this executive order a little later in the program for the moment the live for us in washington thank you. The anger in minneapolis over the death of a black man in Police Custody is spreading across the United States with National Protests planned for saturday civil rights leader all sharpton said the violence being experienced in the city did not begin with protests but rather when george floyd was choked to death begging for his life the u. S. Department of justice says its investigation into floyds death is a top priority the mans for justice for floyd have led to 2 nights of violent protests in minneapolis riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets d at thousands of people as multiple fires broke out across the city and shops were looted 46 year old floyd was filmed gasping for breath during his arrest while an officer kneeled on his that for several minutes he died in hospital shortly afterwards the officer and 3 others have been fired but many have called for criminal charges and i got here some words me are you going to address the violence the violence on the address is our mayor could hold a man down with me on this net come minutes thats when move violence done on. The private started on the 1st con were his marriage was junk dont break his life. So we must act in a way did you just. Get. Were not as good. As good for what is right. Keith mays is a professor of African American and African Studies at the university of minnesota and he joins us now via skype sara thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera now we are waiting to hear from the f. B. I. They have a statement relating to this case and about 1015 minutes will of course have it live here on aljazeera when it does come in but its related his case we dont know the details but we do know that the officer and 3 others involved in the case have been fired many people are calling for criminal charges how important do you think it is for criminal charges to be put forward criminal charges or. Stream really important barbara for the simple fact that previous cases have not resulted in a conviction we had one to one case that the Lendl Castille case with a Police Officer who was charge he was acquitted so this time around people wondering if this is going to be the case were of like family receives justice so it is its highly highly important critical critical that the Police Officer offer a service plural or charges in this case we have i mean the video is obviously shocking and we have seen in the past years since everyone sort of having cameras on their phones more of these videos emerging now you told one of our producers the families victims in the community have been working together for years trying to solve or at least ease this problem where has it been failing. I think its been feeling in Police Training i think the Police Officers and also the larger Law Enforcement community in this city as well as politicians are paying lip service all giving lip service to this whole question of changing the Institutional Culture of Law Enforcement and we have but we have not seen the difference if they are being trained they said this after tomorrow caught which is with another case in north minneapolis where a young man was killed by the police and certainly they said that they would change their practices after Fernando Castillo a few years ago and i think that they probably will say the same thing but the fail failure is in leadership. And local leadership state leadership but also the failure is with the practices of the police themselves and could i just say the video that were seeing now on the split screen is video prior to the arrest which we hadnt seen and let me go back to the point of video because now that we can see these things and its up to everyone to just come up come up with their own opinion of whats going on of course its its shocking and some things are obvious as well how big a part has having this evidence and being there and trying to address this issue. Whatever without the tape without the video theres no case we would not have known of george florid and the murder of mr floyd about Minneapolis Police department and i think that it begs the question how many more of these incidences in this city across the United States are across the world for that matter or taking place on a regular basis perhaps on a daily basis because they are not they have not been captured on video so yes the video is important and without it there is no case we dont we have not we would not have arrived at this moment in time where the f. B. I. Is about to make an announcement about that video obviously the case of george floyd it is tragic for his family and for all the other similar cases where men have lost their lives but weve also seen other cases for example i think it was in new york when a lady whod been told oh a white lady whod been told by a black man to put her dog back on a leash called the police on him so especially for our International Audience how did you describe Race Relations in the u. S. Ryssdal asians are not good and i think that theres a thin veneer. That has in many ways muted. The way which the races are interacting i think that the Trump Presidency in many ways has pulled a bandaid off the issue or around Racial Injustice and has allow people to feel that they have convoy launch and basically saying how they feel so in the case of the central park incident that took place a few days ago a week ago whenever that was when i was captured she essentially is accusing a black man. Of trying to assault her we had the case in georgia i know you guys have maybe have covered that case are. One of the perpetrators actually capture that on film which is interested in another cell so again i think that Race Relations are where they are this is 2020 it matters well as 121928 feels like its 1920 in the United States. Because a because many things have not changed in the century and you mentioned donald trump you you said he gave Carte Blanche to many of all of these feelings and events and yet of course the United States for 8 years had a black president barack obama. Are you perhaps a disappointed or surprised that more changes permanent changes werent implemented when he was president. You know its interesting when brock obama was president we have some of the most. Media captured cases that weve. Only down to eric garner which was a similar case when the young man said that he couldnt breathe freddy gray in baltimore we had the ferguson case so all of these were under the president occurred during the presidency of barack obama so the case is themselves who is in office we know that President Trump has given a green light to some of the races in this country to do but kind of things that theyve done to black people but men make no mistake about it these things are occurring in spite of whos president at the moment keith mays professor of African American and African Studies at the university of minnesota joining us from minnesota via skype sir thank you so much for sharing your views and us thank you thank you barbara thank you. Coming up on this news hour americas unemployment queue keeps growing 14000000. 00 of without work and get more. Survivors are left to bury their dead scores killed when Gunmen Attack a string of nigerian villages. Petrol protection of venezuelas military keeps a close eye on fuel imported from iran. The u. K. Us and australia and canada have condemned the china for imposing new security laws on hong kong saying it threatens the territories fritos Chinas Parliament has given the go ahead for the legislation despite protests and International Warnings the wide ranging laws which beijing says will aim to tackle secession subversion and foreign interference could now be in effect in a matter of weeks brown reports from hong kong. Hong kongs people had no say in the decision to impose a new security law on this city that was not a concern among people we spoke to in the north point district where many mainland immigrants live the night or are of course we will have peace now hong kong has been so chaotic the protesters even went to the United States to ask them to put sanctions on hong kong what a mess they have made they are out there young may have different thoughts before as they are the only there are we make our country prosperous and stable but other elderly people are fearful and scared to come in because you know all freedom for their speech no freedom for. Democracy so ski since 1907 when hong kong was returned from british the chinese rule this city has operated on their unique one country 2 systems formula intended to guarantee the citys legal political and economic arrangements the question now is whether the experiment has failed bid local historian john carroll insists thats not the case no sooner had the sign of british joint declaration been signed in december 1984 people are already talking about the death of hong kong and i mean thats been going on for years and years and years and hong kong is not dead and i dont see hong kong dying so. Chinas leaders insist the new security law d will save hong kong not kill it so the vote by Chinas Parliament on thursday to approve the law was never in doubt you could. She called other the Central Government has always emphasized the comprehensive an accurate implementation of one country 2 Systems Hong Kong ruling hong kong and its high degree of autonomy it strictly follows the constitution and the basic law and supports the Hong Kong Government and its chief executive to govern according to the law bypassing hong kongs legislature the rubber stamp National Peoples congress has now paved the way for mainland security agents to operate here in marked contrast to these orderly scenes there was more disruption in hong kongs parliament. When 3 legislators were ejected during a heated debate about another proposed law that would make it an offense to disrespect chinas National Anthem both measures have prompted demonstrations and a warning from the United States government that its special trading status with the city could be about to end raising concerns about its continued status as asias leading Financial Center adrian brown aljazeera hong kong. Or with china not showing any sign of pulling back before the security laws d are implemented there are concerns for the countries that claiming relationship with the us katrina has more from beijing. Several countries have expressed deep concern over this move by china but the u. S. Has been loudest and strongest in its rebuke really the u. S. And china relationship has hit sort of the an all time low one of the lowest point certainly it has been in decades the u. S. Has made several threats to china because of this move its its requested u. N. Security Council Meeting is also for enterovirus hong kongs trading status now officials here say that theyre preparing for beijing should prepare to engage in a financial war financial war and earlier this week chinas foreign minister one isa that actually the 2 countries even worse have been brought to the brink of a new cold war certainly we know that after this move. 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