Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.S. Attorney General

Re:Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.... by advisedwang on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:59AM (#22376466)

Sure, there's no black or white answer to what is misinformation or extreemist. But regulation and the courts aren't black and white. We regulate the content of broadcast media just fine without hand-wringing about the grey areas.

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Re:Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.... by ahi on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:07PM (#22376529)

We do not regulate the content of broadcast media just fine.

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Re:Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:55PM (#22376977)

Compared to internet UGC, the flow of new content into broadcast media minuscule. According to a random Google search, three hundred hours of new video are added to YouTube each minute. It's unlikely that much new broadcast media is created each hour. And YouTube is just one of many sites. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that UGC is created at a rate of more than 1000x that of broadcast media. That difference in scale, and the difference in economic value per unit of content, makes a solved problem in one medium an tricky challenge in the other.

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