SB-1424 Internet: social media: false information: strategic plan [California Legislature]

California Legislative Information ^ | 22-March-2018 | Richard Pan

[ptsal]

SB 1424, as amended, Pan. Commercial law. Internet: social media: false information: strategic plan.

Existing law prohibits a person, among others, from making or disseminating in any advertising device, or in any manner or means whatever, including over the Internet, any statement concerning real or personal property or services that is untrue or misleading, as specified.

This bill would require any person who operates a social media, as defined, Internet Web site with a physical presence in California to develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Web site. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a plan to mitigate the spread of false information through news stories, the utilization of fact-checkers to verify news stories, providing outreach to social media users, and placing a warning on a news story containing false information.

[ptsal]

More goofiness from the Left Coast of California....

SECTION 1. Title 14.5 (commencing with Section 3085) is added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, to read: TITLE 14.5. False Information Strategic Plans

3085. (a) Any person who operates a social media Internet Web site with physical presence in California shall develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Internet Web site.

(b) The strategic plan shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(1) A plan to mitigate the spread of false information through news stories.

(2) The utilization of fact-checkers to verify news stories.

(3) Providing outreach to social media users regarding news stories containing false information.

(4) Placing a warning on a news story containing false information. (c) As used in this section, “social media” means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or Internet Web site profiles or locations.

[ptsal]

Head’s up.... This could have legs.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Sounds like a good plan... on the surface...

Implementation of the plan on the other hand !

[RoadieFan]

Who is gonna fact check the fact checkers? We know Snopes ins’t reliable.

[Da Coyote]

Heh. The legislature of Mexifornia is legislating information?
They cannot secede fast enough.
It will be a delight watching Venezuela of the north collapse.

[generally]

I see this as more of an attack on sites like FR than as a protection against the fake news of other sites.

You know that coming out of California, it’s going to rely on “fact-checkers” like snopes and their ilk who are total shills for the lying left.

I see this as the lying media run amok and the government having the means to shut down the dissenters who actually tell the truth.

[TomGuy]

California Libs try to regulate satire, thus making themselves the butt of future jokes.

Mr. Swift, provide us proof of the existence of this land of Lilliputians where Mr. Gulliver traveled.

Can you even provide evidence of the true existence of this Mr. Gulliver?

[greeneyes]

Yes I agree. Easy enough to deal with-just preface everything with a warning-this could be satire or this could be inaccurate etc.

It’s not like there is any reliable place to check stuff out anymore - sure not gonna believe Snopes or even Wikipedia the way they are changing it-it wasn’t all that reliable to begin with.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ptsal. Here's a blast from the past that sums up the present situation by analogy.

[ptsal]

You are probably right.

This is broad enough to catch the Free Republic or any other site that falls out of favor in Sacramento.

[DBrow]

And an article talking about human-caused catastrophic climate change and the amount of sea level rise we have seen is categorized how?

Or an article touting the awesome special deadly power of assault weapons?

Or an article detailing how much the Awans were paid?

[ptsal]

Or an article detailing how much the Awans were paid?

or

Perhaps, Xavier Becerra and Sean McCluskie could explain how and why they handled the computer server while they were in DC.

[WayneS]

Existing law prohibits a person, among others, from making or disseminating in any advertising device, or in any manner or means whatever, including over the Internet, any statement concerning real or personal property or services that is untrue or misleading, as specified.

"...a person, among others.."

So it applies to plants and animals as well? How about space aliens?

[ridesthemiles]

That state cannot even verify the authenticity of Brown’s words or those of the Legislature.......

[bitt]

rats with gags at the ready! ping

[ptsal]

I assume that is a picture of Oleg Atbashian, right?

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/better12.jpg

[Retvet]

Will it apply to politicians? Courts have said politicians lying is allowed by first amendment, freedom of speech, not false advertising.

[hanamizu]

Implementation of the plan on the other hand !

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Implementation of the plan will be simple. Use “trusted” sources CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times/Washington Post, former EPA, CIA officials etc. It will be like the good old days Obama lamented for.

[P-Marlowe]

Good plan?

Are you nuts?

This is a frontal assault on all conservative websites. This one appears to be designed to shut down Free Republic.

[VTenigma]

Who decides what is false news? Are they going to enlist CNN as consultants? This is blatant censorship of conservative viewpoints plain and simple. Social media outlets (many based in CA) will pre-emptively censor conservatives as to not run afoul of their Marxist dictators in CA. Say good bye to alternative information.