Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by freeflight on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:28PM
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> This isn't a company deciding, this is censorship urged by the government.
Which is not new, the exactly same happened a couple of years ago to force Social Media companies to moderate more strongly on "extremist/jihadist", "foreign interference" and "child nudity" content.
During Senate hearings Google, Facebook and Twitter were faced with the choice to either do it themselves, or be forced to do it trough regulation, those were bipartisan efforts [0].
But even back then it was pretty evident how that whole thing would end up as a slippery slope.
Which is not new, the exactly same happened a couple of years ago to force Social Media companies to moderate more strongly on "extremist/jihadist", "foreign interference" and "child nudity" content.
During Senate hearings Google, Facebook and Twitter were faced with the choice to either do it themselves, or be forced to do it trough regulation, those were bipartisan efforts [0].
But even back then it was pretty evident how that whole thing would end up as a slippery slope.
[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/40489793/senators-grill-facebook...