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Gov. Newsom signs controversial social media bill into California law
ktla ^ | Olafimihan Oshin

Posted on 09/14/2022 6:20:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Senate Bill AB 587 will require social media companies to publicly post their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, harassment, and extremism on their platforms, and report data on their enforcement of the policies.

The newly signed legislation will also require platforms to file semiannual reports to the state’s attorney general’s office that will disclose their policies toward hate speech, extremism, and disinformation.

The state’s attorney general’s office is also required “to make all terms of service reports submitted pursuant to those provisions available to the public in a searchable repository on its official internet website.”

Last week, the state’s legislature passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which will require social media companies to consider the physical and mental health of minors who use their platforms.

According to the Washington Post, several big tech companies and tech industry trade groups have filed lawsuits in Texas and Florida in an attempt to block similar social media regulatory laws enacted in those states.

The bill has also raised concerns from legal experts, citing First Amendment and free speech as their main issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: ab587; california; censorship; creepstate; deepstate; dissent; freespeech; gavinnewsom; internet; policestate; singlepartystate; socialmedia
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'“The bill is likely to be struck down as unconstitutional at substantial taxpayer expense. The censorial consequences should trigger the highest level of constitutional scrutiny, but the undue burdens and lack of consumer benefit ensures it won’t survive even lower levels of scrutiny,” Santa Clara University School of Law professor Eric Goldman.'

Aha! Exhibit A of the type of hate speech misinformation which needs to be purged from social media!

1 posted on 09/14/2022 6:20:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

no such thing as disinformation in a free country.


2 posted on 09/14/2022 6:23:03 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Well said.


3 posted on 09/14/2022 6:23:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Is this constitutional? Has Governor Newson created a Ministry of Truth?


4 posted on 09/14/2022 6:25:02 PM PDT by daviscupper
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To: BenLurkin

“The bill is likely to be struck down as unconstitutional at substantial taxpayer expense. The censorial consequences should trigger the highest level of constitutional scrutiny, but the undue burdens and lack of consumer benefit ensures it won’t survive even lower levels of scrutiny!”

Santa Clara University School of Law professor Eric Goldman.’

When the liberals at Santa Clara say it will be shot down, its half life might be very short.


5 posted on 09/14/2022 6:27:53 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: TornadoAlley3
no such thing as disinformation in a free country.

You are absolutely correct.
6 posted on 09/14/2022 6:30:34 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin
 
 
“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.” ~ Bruce Coville
 
 

7 posted on 09/14/2022 6:30:51 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: BenLurkin

So, a bill that requires a closer working relationship between social media businesses and the government.

Or, as Mussolini liked to call it, fascismo!


8 posted on 09/14/2022 6:32:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: BenLurkin
require social media companies to publicly post their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, harassment, and extremism on their platforms, and report data on their enforcement of the policies.

I am not seeing the problem here. If they post their policies it will be easier to see that they are not applying them uniformly.

There will be ammunition to fight back against the bannings.

What am I missing?

9 posted on 09/14/2022 6:36:12 PM PDT by ProudGOP
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To: ProudGOP

The problem, as I see it, is requiring speech platforms to be answerable to government.


10 posted on 09/14/2022 6:37:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Who decides what is hate speech, extremism, or disinformation?

Oh yeah the new commie Nazis...

If it were me deciding; this bill would be considered hate speech, extremism, and disinformation.


11 posted on 09/14/2022 6:38:59 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: TornadoAlley3; All
"no such thing as disinformation in a free country."

This ☝☝☝☝☝☝

12 posted on 09/14/2022 6:40:52 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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To: BenLurkin

Deu 7:10 - “and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

Psa 5:5 - The boastful shall not stand in Your sight;
You hate all workers of iniquity.

Psa 34:21 - Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Psa 45:7 - You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.

Psa 97:10 - You who love the LORD, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of His saints;
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Pro 8:13 - The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverse mouth I hate.

Amo 5:10 - They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

Mat 6:24 - “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Rev 17:16 - “And the ten horns which you saw on[fn] the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

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Your move gavin,,

Which is hate speech, ?
Which is disinformation, ?
Which is harassment, ?

and which is extremism ?

.


13 posted on 09/14/2022 6:43:01 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: BenLurkin

I generally despise Democratic politicians, most especially the ones in California and New York State.

They are not worth the energy to hate.


14 posted on 09/14/2022 6:48:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: BenLurkin

Liz Cheney blanks Trump.


15 posted on 09/14/2022 6:51:40 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: BenLurkin

“publicly post their policies”

From policy to police state, in short order!


16 posted on 09/14/2022 6:53:36 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


17 posted on 09/14/2022 6:54:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dear Readers:

The government of this state....

Our policy of not spreading disinformation prevents our informing you of what it stated.

The Editor


18 posted on 09/14/2022 6:58:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: cuz1961

So gavin,,,

Do YOU hate HATE ?


19 posted on 09/14/2022 7:02:38 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: ProudGOP

“harassment”

We think it is a bad idea for the FBI to seize the phone of a pillow company owner.


20 posted on 09/14/2022 7:03:41 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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