Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media
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#2This is a slippery slope.
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#3It's funny that their solution is removing privacy as opposed to combating gathering of data and sales of hypertargeted ads.
Here's the problem with the US legal system. This regulation (if passed) will likely fail to solve the problem but it will stay on the book and it won't be removed until idk...ever?
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#4This is what it looks like when the public square is on private property.
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#6I doubt this would help. Judging by my Facebook feed Americans are perfectly capable of vicious, polarized discourse without foreign influence. In fact this may backfire as it would allow the hateful in society to have more of a right to preach on these platforms as no one would be able to accuse them of being foreign trolls. Its probable that this level of discourse is here to stay and that the previous elevated, comparably "civilized" discourse was a result of broadcast media and its top-down structure.
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#7What about freedom of speech, or freedom of press? The government shall make no law?
I guess the convenient exception made by the FCC for regulating content shown on TV (OMG nudity!! censor this!!) will prove useful as a precedent. Sad.
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#8The Congressional hearings involving Mark Zuckerberg showed that Congress is not equipt to deal with the problems social media has brought to society. I am highly skepticle of anything the senate convinces themselves is the right way to deal with social media; it seems like an attempt to set the stage to grab more power and control than anything else.
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#10What about freedom of speech, or freedom of press? The government shall make no law? I guess the convenient exception made by the FCC for regulating content shown on TV (OMG nudity!! censor this!!) will prove useful as a precedent. Sad.
Obscenity isn’t protected by the first amendment.
Obviously there is disagreement over what is and isn’t obscene.