Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,...
by zimablue on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:06AM
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By your own government you mean US or UK?
I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're not incompetent.
In any department, they will normally be the force for good policy based on evidence, it's politicians who push random expedient ideas. Take grammar schools, the entire department of education knows they don't work and are being forced to push it. Or Brexit, the whole civil service pretty much opposes it, and especially the treasury/trade people in detailed knowledge that it's going to be an economic tire fire.
Finally, regulation != censorship, there's such a thing as a middle ground.
Re:Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content,...
by natechols on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:43AM
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If regulation controls what content they're allowed to publish, and enforces this with financial and/or criminal penalties, then it's the same thing as censorship.
I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're not incompetent.
In any department, they will normally be the force for good policy based on evidence, it's politicians who push random expedient ideas. Take grammar schools, the entire department of education knows they don't work and are being forced to push it. Or Brexit, the whole civil service pretty much opposes it, and especially the treasury/trade people in detailed knowledge that it's going to be an economic tire fire.
Finally, regulation != censorship, there's such a thing as a middle ground.