Excellent, but why enshrine the ability to do this in law only for sufficiently wealthy media companies? Seems a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?
As opposed to only sufficiently wealthy American technology companies...
Well yes, Facebook has an obvious right to moderate their own platform. News Corp, on the other hand, does not own the Fox News Facebook page.
Re:Response to Google open letter
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:16PM
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So can media organizations. They just can't pre-moderate the comments.
Where are you seeing a requirement to pre-moderate?
Re:Response to Google open letter
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:35PM
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There is no such requirement. But that is the capability they want that they do not currently have. They already have the capability to delete comments, just like you can delete comments on your own posts.
If they want that, why wouldn't they put it in the law? And if they want it but it's not in the law, then why do we care?
Re:Response to Google open letter
by thaumasiotes on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:15PM
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Perhaps that's what the draft legislation means by "remove or filter comments"?
I, like all FB users, can delete comments to my own FB posts.