What Should Be Done About Social Media?

Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by root_axis on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:34PM (#25120288)

I am so tired of this line of argument. Those are totally arbitrary suggestions without any consideration for what is practical or legally plausible.

On what basis should website owners lose their right to determine what goes up on their own website? What about the creative control one's own work? What about free speech for the site creator? What about the property rights owned to those paying cash to keep the site operational? The law should not attempt to dictate the specific ways in which it is legal for computer programs to sort information for display on a website... this is absurd.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by hvdfhbj on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:31AM (#25120577)

I fully agree that website owners shouldn't lose the right to determine what goes up on their own website, but with the caveat that this right also comes with legal liability for anything that's on there.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by root_axis on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:56PM (#25127995)

So in effect you're saying moderated message boards should be illegal. Why should that be the case?

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