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They want it both ways.
They want to be a platform when it comes to liability.
They want to be a publisher so they can censor people they hate.
Can’t have it but ways.
Possible Nanny State PING!
Google are already EVIL.
Wow
Can you imagine ; you know a bill oops
A right ; that guarantees free speech
Almost like someone would put that up there as #1
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This guy sounds more like a Democrat to me.
All this law would do is make a bad situation worse, and increase censorship.
“This bill forces platforms to make an impossible choice: Either host reprehensible, but First Amendment protected speech, or lose legal protections that allow them to moderate illegal content like human trafficking and violent extremism,” said Michael Beckerman, president and CEO of the tech lobbying group the Internet Association.”
Reprehensible in whose opinion? To these libtards, saying Trump is a great guy would be considered reprehensible. Quoting the Holy Bible is reprehensible in their tiny minds. We don’t need a nanny, thanks just the same.
That does not follow.
All they would have to do would be to *be* politically neutral.
That is a much easier condition to meet.
They simply have to give up their goals of shaping the narrative and thinking of their customers.
They do not want to give up that power.
btt
No. Either stop the political censorship on your platforms OR get regulated as publishers since you are in fact controlling content. That should absolutely be the choice Big Tech is put to. What you should not be able to do is enjoy the benefits and protections of being regulated as mere platforms while exercising editorial control - ie exactly what you are doing now.
It seems that twitter, facebook, and youtube are already guilty of violating section Section 230 because they are censoring in a way that violates there immunity under it.
Removing that section would actually make it impossibly dangerous for anyone to speak out at all.
Idiots.
“This bill forces platforms to make an impossible choice: Either host reprehensible, but First Amendment protected speech, or lose legal protections that allow them to moderate illegal content like human trafficking and violent extremism,” said Michael Beckerman, president and CEO of the tech lobbying group the Internet Association. “That shouldn’t be a tradeoff.”
so free speech is now reprehensible?
Their lawyers will advise them to eliminate all political content across the board.
terrible law, but here’s what they SHOULD pass, namely Federal legislation that makes social media platforms subject to liability (with treble damages for punishment) from anyone who believes they were censored for their political views ... would take only a couple of pages for the law, and would pretty much immediately rectify all political censorship ...
“Tech companies like Twitter or YouTube currently have protection under Section 230 against being held liable for what users post on the site. That’s why you typically can’t sue Facebook for a hateful statement someone else posts on your timeline.”
That is why Facebook is not supposed to exercise editorial control over content.
Open the SOBs up for litigation. When they moderate, we are allowed to assume they approve of and are responsible for everything posted.
Verizon does not decide who I can call who on their phones. In exchange, I cannot sue Verizon when someone uses a Verizon phone to hire the hitman they send after me.
Fair exchange.
Quit censoring political opinions, and enjoy lawsuit protection. Easy..
Writing yet another law which will be ignored or unenforced is another pointless effort.
Congress and DOJ needs to prove to voters they will enforce laws already on the books.
Antifa attacking people with rocks is a felony.
Refusing to even charge the perp with Assault apparently doesn’t violate the law.
Also we need Trump to issue an immediate executive order.
“No executive branch agency may use the services of any social media company that censors on the basis of political opinion. No contracts for IT services may be signed with any company that censors content”.
No Facebook pages at DOD, NAVY, USAF, HUD, USDA, Dept of Labor, Interior, NASA, NOAA, USGS, FAA, HHS, Education, etc.
No Twitter pages either.
Then open similar accounts at some other legitimate social media company.