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Cancel the mob: make platforms liable for publishing (or linking to) any accusations not established by a court relating to an individual's morals or ethics, ex
by rapht 5y ago
Cancel the mob: make platforms liable for publishing (or linking to) any accusations not established by a court relating to an individual's morals or ethics, except when those accusations are made by an accredited press organization.
OK to call someone an incompetent, not OK to call someone a child abuser, or even just a sexist or a liar, except if you're making a stand as a media organization (which the accused individual may then sue under libel laws)
Penalty for platforms: $10k per offense -- 100 bad tweets published: $1m risk.
- sneak 5y agoThere is already a mechanism for conveying liability to the publisher (not the platform, but the tweeter/poster, as it should be) when they publish false claims of fact (ie lies).
- rapht 5y agoPrecisely: this does not work in practice! I see many reasons why, the first of which is just that most of the time the damage is already done by the time it goes to court, assuming you can find the real name behind the usernames that professed lies, and I'm not even talking about bots. That's why the liability has to rest on platforms -- and that's in addition to the publisher's liability. Edit: formatting
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- sneak 5y agoWhat you described also does not work, and perhaps does not work much faster. Under such a circumstance, Twitter would not be able to afford to permit any not manually-reviewed/moderated tweets to be posted at all, and would have to shut down.