Tech companies are making speech 'someone else's problem.' Here's how

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Neither tech company CEOs nor politicians want to make the tough calls on internet speech. Now they may have an alternative

that gives websites flexibility to choose if and when they’ll censor users, “to make sure that it’s working as intended.”over whether the law should require platforms to do more moderation or bar them from doing any at all, prospects for a government-based solution remain dim in the short term.

Meanwhile, some European countries where “the governments themselves don’t actually want to do all the work of content moderation” are already adopting regulations thatBut without the force of law behind it, that model also has its limits.“They want to be able to say, ‘Look, we banned Trump, and our independent body agreed,’” said Mark Coatney, a former Tumblr employee who’s now working on a third-party social media moderation tool.

While a third-party referee may solve the hot-potato problem for tech executives and politicians, it still leaves a small number of individuals making judgments that affect the rights of millions. To some, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the ultimate answer must be to let social media users themselves decide what‘s acceptable.” that’s “not owned by any single private corporation.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

 

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Corporatism SOP. Hand it over to a tribunal of vested souls.

Bullshit propaganda piece! All they have done the past 4 years is deplatforming, censorship, removing competition from alternative by removing their app services etc They´re f*cking dictating the tech world & our free speech, you´re like a Goebbels manufacturing information

If someone thinks social media censorship is infringing on your rights then someone should tell you Facebook is not a body of government. You can say whatever you want still.

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