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Facebook calls for government regulation
Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content.
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Facebook's chief says the responsibility for monitoring harmful content is too great for firms alone. He calls for new laws in four areas: "Harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability."
It comes two weeks after a gunman used the site to livestream his attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.
"Lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and frankly I agree," Mr Zuckerberg writes, adding that Facebook was "creating an independent body so people can appeal our decisions" about what is posted and what is taken down.
He also describes a new set of rules he would like to see enforced on tech companies. These new regulations should be the same for all websites, he says, so that it's easier to stop "harmful content" from spreading quickly across platforms.
Also at The Telegraph, CNBC, CNET
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @07:30PM
Authoritarian dickbag. No censorship by law, remove barriers to entry by making ISPs "dumb pipes" and let people host their own conte t if they want.
I'm cynical enough to think this was the point of FB all along. They censored plenty of shit, but somehow the worst most divisive crap gets through... hmmmm. More like manufacturing a crisis that isn't really that big of a deal to push censorship. Seriously, we've had the same wackos doing evil shit since before zuckerbutt was just a digesting sandwich.