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The headline is nonsense. Several governments, including the US, have pressured YouTube and others to remove covid misinformation. This is a classic constitutio
by nitwit005 5y ago
The headline is nonsense. Several governments, including the US, have pressured YouTube and others to remove covid misinformation. This is a classic constitutional work around, where you get the industry to censor stuff for you, when a censorship law might not hold up in court. The movie and comic book industries were big examples of this in the US.
She's just asking them to actually pass a law, and make clear rules:
> “Our recommendation, if governments want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined so that we can implement it,” Wojcicki said.
> She’s also called for the US government to offer guidance on “hate speech”
- warmwaffles 5y agoThe other issue they have to contend with is dealing with countries passing laws that give the executive authority to the administrate law with which ever way the wind blows. In the US once congress grants the executive power on something to administrate law it tends to flip flop on what is enforced every time the other party comes into majority.