Re:Zuckerberg Breaks Silence on Facebook Crisis as Criticism...
by mc32 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:19AM
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Yes, but while we all love the first amendment when it's something like this, people will go to great lengths to point out corps are not subject to it when it would protect an undesirable element with unpopular opinions.
This is one area where we definitely need some regulation. And I think people who have complained about Google account bans in the past would agree. These companies are getting too powerful and connected to too many things and services to simply be allowed to remove someone's access on a whim, without a strong justification for it and without also being able to appeal the move to authorities, if needed.
Ideally, this wouldn't be needed if the internet was more decentralized and these companies didn't try to be everywhere and own everything. But since they love that monopoly power so much, then the regulation is required.