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SB-1424 Internet: social media: false information: strategic plan [California Legislature]
California Legislative Information ^ | 22-March-2018 | Richard Pan

Posted on 04/09/2018 6:15:27 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; california; dissent; firstamendment; freespeech; legislation; sb1424
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To: P-Marlowe

“This one appears to be designed to shut down Free Republic.”

I think we meet the fact checker requirement just by our nature. If someone posts something that is off, wrong, unlikely, within a half dozen posts, somebody will point that out. I’ve seen the mods pull a thread that has fake news more than once.


21 posted on 04/09/2018 8:12:39 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: ptsal

Blatant First Amendment VIOLATION!!!


22 posted on 04/09/2018 8:39:31 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: DBrow

Which government bureaucrat is going to decide whether the site’s fact checker is really fact checking.

Don’t be fooled. This is a direct attack on conservative websites. This is designed to shut them all down.


23 posted on 04/09/2018 8:42:35 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: WayneS

“applies to”

“among others” may mean it only applies to children and midgets within a group of normal sized adults.

I.e., The shorties are “among” the others in the group.


24 posted on 04/09/2018 8:46:07 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: ptsal

Thia sounds like an attack on FR!


25 posted on 04/09/2018 9:42:47 AM PDT by Wneighbor (A pregnant woman is responsible for TWO lives, not one. (It's a wonderful "deplorable" truth))
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To: DBrow

I agree with you that our FR fact checkers are the greatest, BUT this is legislation by the leftists on Kalifornia. They will be the ones determining what facts to choose as correct based on the leftist agenda. It will be no good thing for any conservative website.


26 posted on 04/09/2018 9:49:26 AM PDT by Wneighbor (A pregnant woman is responsible for TWO lives, not one. (It's a wonderful "deplorable" truth))
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To: generally; Jim Robinson

I think that FR could easily be caught up in this dragnet.

Jim I think it is time for you and the fam to move, self and servers to a more friendly area of the world. We all welcome you with open arms.


27 posted on 04/09/2018 9:52:57 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ptsal

Clearly unconstitutional.


28 posted on 04/09/2018 10:40:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: ptsal

Dunno, I found that one while looking for the “better regulate radio” graphic.


29 posted on 04/09/2018 11:37:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ptsal

“Head’s up.... This could have legs”
Did you mean Leg-Irons?


30 posted on 04/10/2018 7:32:25 AM PDT by Sefton (Marxism>Leninism>Stalinism>Trotskism>Maoism>Obamaism)
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To: Sefton

Good observation.....

<>Criticism of the political power mongers will NOT be tolerated.


31 posted on 04/10/2018 7:56:06 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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