Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
by joe_the_user on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:05AM
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The US government does have a history of cenorship - the banning of Henry Miller's novels and Wilhelm Reich's writing are the most prominent cases.
The US government hasn't censor broadcast media much given that most broadcast media owned by large corporations with ties to the state themselves.
And there's no reason that government wading into regulating Facebook could do anything remotely sane. A lot of Facebook's scandals have nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with filtering bias. When state agency is going to be qualified to regulate that?
The US government hasn't censor broadcast media much given that most broadcast media owned by large corporations with ties to the state themselves.
And there's no reason that government wading into regulating Facebook could do anything remotely sane. A lot of Facebook's scandals have nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with filtering bias. When state agency is going to be qualified to regulate that?