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White House unveils principles for Big Tech reform
- nicbou 4y agoThat's a pretty good summary and a pretty good broad plan for dealing with it.
- avmich 4y agoReferrals to Section 230 are concerning - didn't we discuss that over and over for all these years?
- ajvs 4y agoI'll believe it when I see it. This same administration has been secretly emailing Big Tech to censor people like Alex Berenson so I don't buy that they want moderation transparency and reform.
- michaelwww 4y agoWhat's interesting about this to me is that there's no mention of pornography. In an earlier era porn would have been an issue of highest priority, but I guess the world has accepted that people can view porn without harm. Even the "Protect our kids" section doesn't mention porn.
- _vdpp 4y agoI don't know that they've accepted the harmlessness of it as much as raised the white flag on the fact that it's too widespread to be shut down, even if they wanted to.
- _vdpp 4y agoMaybe I'm cynical, but I see "increase competition," but then see "put stronger safeguards in place" and assume that the regulations will be written in such a way that no upstart competitors can possibly abide by them, concentrating even more power in the hands of the incumbents and reducing competition.
- nebula8804 4y agoIts the beginning of the end.
- StanislavPetrov 4y ago>misinformation and disinformation Nobody has spread more misinformation and disinformation than the government and the intelligence agencies. They are the last people on earth who should be trusted to "regulate" the speech of others, much less determine what qualifies as "misinformation and disinformation".
- midislack 4y agoAll organic chats and interactions will be done on private services. Bots you see.
- andrekandre 4y ago> They are the last people on earth who should be trusted to "regulate" the speech of others i havent read the whole thing yet so please forgive the question, but what specific provision was in there to regulate speech? afaik the govt is prevented by 1st amendment to abridge free speech no?
- midislack 4y ago
- carefulobserver 4y agoThat sounds intriguing. What angle would your lawsuits take?
- midislack 4y agoProtection of minority groups under the California Constitution.
- google234123 4y agoLiterally every large site on the web has some users hating on every minority (by belief, race, region, political view,….).
- dart200 4y agou wouldn't end up protecting them
- cowtools 4y agoremoval of 230 would be disastrous for the internet as we know it, outside of some accelerationist worldview where the destruction of every major internet forum is good in the sense that it forces people into tougher peer-to-peer systems. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
- dart200 4y agogovernment needs to bfto on repressing speech