Posted on 10/06/2021 7:17:47 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday that one option for making social media less harmful would be to create a dedicated regulatory agency to oversee companies like Facebook, and could have former tech workers on staff.
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Haugen also said that if she were made CEO of Facebook, she would immediately establish a policy that would allow it to share internal research with Congress and other oversight bodies, calling for transparency and public scrutiny of Facebookâs systems, algorithms and research into the impacts of its sites.
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In our current crisis, government is not the solution. Government is the problem.
I really dislike Facebook, but more government is not the answer,
The people using the app are the problem.
NO...NO...NO...Hell NO!
The real answer is for everyone to abandon Fecebook.
Who still uses Facebook ?
Any regulatory agency is only as effective or corrupt as the ones who design the oversight. It simply grants more regulatory power to ensure that their agenda is empowered and carried out. No matter how it is marketed.
Agree, the only social media that the Federal government should regulate is the Post Office.
I’d rather see it as a Free Speech/No Censorship issue.
You can’t say “I’m going to kill you” on the street, or on Facebook.
You can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater or on Facebook.
But, other than that, you can say a lot of stuff, and it shouldn’t be censored. Let’s get to that point. And then, if Facebook blocks people, or takes stuff down, then they are censoring people, and they should be taken to court and made to pay.
We don’t need more government to do that. We just need to remove current government protection (230?)
First, anti-trust law rests on a bastardized application of the Commerce Clause, and I'm an Originalist.
Second, the Milton Friedman School of Regulation teaches us that regulation rarely protects the public and often insulates the Bad Industry and Players from competition.
Third, the Invisible Hand has cleaned up things more efficiently - witness GM, GE, and other "too big to fail" firms.
But fourth but maybe most importantly, the Leviathan we empower to tame Big Tech will likely destroy Freerepublc and other sources of information, under the guise of "protecting the public."
I detest FB et al, but I love freedom more.
Who doesn't?
Conservatives abandoning Facebook is like abandoning millions of dollars of equipment to the Taliban.
Leave it to the democrat influencers, and we lose that many more people to the dark side.
Build a better mousetrap. FB needs more competition. NO more government interference.
The fix is simple. Let Facebook operate without any restrictions.
If they can cherry pick what they want on there now, let them divide the content into separate categories. If you want to read it then look at that category. Freedom of speech should not be suppressed period. It shouldn’t matter if your privately owed and run or not. If it is out there to be used by the masses then free speech rules the land!
For me, this is a true dilemma: two choices, both bad. I’m a free market economist and know that regulation in almost anything results in sub-optimal solutions to the problem. On the other hand FB and others are abusing the right to free and full information.
Free markets only work when that market is comprised of informed buyers. Alas, that is not the case for a lot of FB users. If they were, one is hard-pressed to explain why they want a form of gov’t like the one currently in place in Venezuela.
I don’t know what the final solution is, but perhaps a breakup similar to the breakup of US Steel, Alcoa, and AT&T.
Agree.
When a company reaches a certain level if market dominance, it is far cheaper to hire a hundred people to deal with regulations in expectations that those same regulations will completely crush any upstart competitors instead of having to fight the competition in the free market
“Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday that one option for making social media less harmful would be to create a dedicated regulatory agency to oversee companies like Facebook, and could have former tech workers on staff.”
WRONG!!!!! If you want to regulate it, every two years someone goes into the phonebook and selects 9 random names. Who is “someone?” I’m thinking the librarian from the library of congress.
It is government corruption that is a problem. Anybody in Congress who has received donations from Facebook should not be allowed to question any witnesses from Facebook. And prohibited from voting on issues related to Facebook.
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