Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger

Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by joe_the_user on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:10AM (#19168827)

I have come to the admittedly sad conclusion that you can't reside in the middle here. I mean, you can idealistically, but slope will slide to one side or the other in practice.

I don't see evidence that there is no middle ground here. Facebook and Google filter a lot of content. But that is filtering and not absolute control and there are significant other sources for those who want them.

State regulation would, however, produce a situation where everything remotely like a filter would be exposed to whatever regulation was implemented and that would in fact be a tremendous advantage for these same large players.

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Re:Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger by aeternus on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:53AM (#19168982)

That filtering is not absolute control, but it is enough to control an election, consider these stats:

http://www.journalism.org/2018/09/10/news-use-across-social-...

Especially with 'AI-based filtering', which blurs the lines on what is filtered and why, these companies have both significant discretion and plausible deniability when it comes to censoring content.

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