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Corporations cannot outsource "thought policing" to "the State", as the State deems social media platforms able to effect elections. A tiny percentage, but not
by loopz 6y ago
Corporations cannot outsource "thought policing" to "the State", as the State deems social media platforms able to effect elections. A tiny percentage, but not most, is covered by Law.
Shunning accountability only go so far. Sooner or later it is optimized into a closed, shrinking circle.
- intended 6y agoWell in the UK, that is starting to happen, the online harms paper is out, and OFCOM will be taking some amount of that work. Since foreign agencies are able to use platforms to influence elections then governments are going to take action to protect their processes. At the same time, from the firm's perspective, they have to be arbiters of issues that the public has never discussed or dealt with, the political powers of the polity are involved in it = all of which has to be done at massive scale, across multiple jurisdictions and laws. This is an unsolvable problem. Right now they get told of for not removing conspiracies and for removing conspiracies, all the while being told off for harming free speech. Having an outside third party to play referee is just cheaper, so they will fight and lobby for it in some for or the other.