Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations

Re:Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake n... by vinceguidry on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:12PM (#19971555)

That's basically saying that there should be no online public forums for discourse, anywhere, because the scale means they can't be properly moderated.

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Re:Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake n... by Mirioron on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:41PM (#19971836)

And to take this further: it also means that there should be no right to public assembly, because you can't moderate what's said there either.

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Re:Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake n... by anoncake on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:25PM (#19972323)

No, not at all. The argument is that since Facebook moderates their site according to their own arbitrary standards, it's not a place for public assembly but a publication that Facebook is responsible for as if it were a newspaper. If they did not moderate, it would not apply.

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Re:Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake n... by fghtr on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:25PM (#19973153)

Mastodon can help here, because it is not a single entity, but a federation with independent moderations.

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Re:Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake n... by 50656E6973 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:08PM (#19975066)

Indeed. Distributed design is the intelligent way to go when it comes to mass communications systems. Too much centralization leads to many such problems

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