Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to democracy

Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by mkolodny on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:33PM (#31171297)

Disinformation (spreading false information that you know is false) is illegal in the US [0]. The question isn’t whether people should be free to knowingly spread false information. The question is who should decide what is false information.

Giving a single billionaire the power to decide what speech is allowed (and what isn’t) is dangerous. No individual’s incentives align with everyone else’s. And the wealthiest person in the world has especially unique incentives.

If we want to align our social media platforms’ rules with what’s best for society, then we need society to decide the rules.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/35

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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by psyc on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:56PM (#31171599)

Are you kidding me? Read the second half of those sections. Come back and tell us what the rest of the sentence says.

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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by mkolodny on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:17PM (#31174775)

Condescension aside, fair point - I misread.

Do you think people should be free to knowingly spread false information on media platforms?

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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by weezin on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:40PM (#31172203)

IANAL (also judging by what you said you aren't either) But that doesn't look to mean what you say it means [0].

[0] https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/convey-false-inf...

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