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Reports say White House has drafted an order for FCC to monitor social media
- mieseratte 7y agoWould be nice if they brought the Fairness Doctrine[0] back to the news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
- panarky 7y agoThe Fairness Doctrine was for broadcast media. RF spectrum was a limited public resource and the government regulated who could use what frequencies. In exchange for the use of that limited public resource, broadcasters had to give equal airtime to competing views and dedicate a portion of their time to public-service and community content. None of that applies to the infinite number of "channels" available on the public internet. Say whatever you want online, as long as you don't threaten, abuse, intimidate, swindle, incite violence, or recruit terrorists. You're free to build your own platform if what you want to say is so horrible that even Twitter won't allow it.
- mieseratte 7y agoConsidering Twitter blocked McConnel’s posting of the threats he is receiving I hardly believe Twitter is a moral arbiter as you imply. Attention span is a finite resource. If you use your monopoly over it to algorithmically suppress reasonable, dissenting discourse you deserve the regulations you get. Businesses are not free to wreak havoc on society for a dollar.
- panarky 7y agoThe First Amendment protects Twitter's right to publish what it wants, free from government diktat. The First Amendment does not force Twitter to provide you or anybody else a free platform for whatever you want to say. If you don't like the rules on platforms that exist, you're free to build your own platform with your own rules.
- sudmh 7y agoThis example of clickbait will be studied in schools for years to come.