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Big Tech must prove content moderation works or pay $15K daily fines [Updated]
- rektide 4y ago> Now passed, the California law requires social media companies to post their policies and then submit enforcement reports publicly, every quarter, to California's attorney general. I wouldnt say that this is a mandate to prove moderation works. It's an insistence on data on what is happening, which right now is not available. Fines seem to begin if there is not information on why moderation occured? I personally dont think companies have this responsibility to the public for running tbeir platforms. This law feels like it's in conflict with & stomps upon federal section 230 rights to moderate yourself. Each state piping in- yeah but you've got to do so & so to have that right to moderate yourself- it doesnt feel like infinitely sprawling state level mandates is survivable or sensible. I also dont see it reported here what qualifies a company to have to meet this mandate or not. Is there some minimum income, or number of active monthly users? Does everyone mow have flaming hoops of fire they have to jump through to deal with problematic user content? This just makes nee freer speech & new or better moderated sites harder to make. We'll be stuck with the current sites even more, be even more regulatorily locked into to the crusty same old sites.