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posted by mrpg on Sunday March 31 2019, @05:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the poke dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @08:57PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @08:57PM (#822832)

    The manifesto is being banned because it outlines exactly what the government is now doing, banning all sorts of weapons. That was part of his plan and he admitted it. He was also an eco-fascist, fighting for the environment, and the left doesn't want us reminded that environmentalism is frequently violent.

    The video is being banned because it is less gruesome than any old first-person shooter and because it is kind of satisfying to see the tables turned for once. Usually, it's us infidels getting slaughtered. Note what didn't make the news: in the surrounding weeks, about 120 Christians were killed by Muslims in Nigeria and about 50 decapitated heads of Yazidis were found in Syria. Despite the bigger numbers, that didn't make the news because Islam is politically favored by the leftist news media.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 01 2019, @01:14AM (7 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 01 2019, @01:14AM (#822921) Journal

    Ya gotta admit, 100+ years of meddling in the middle-East by the Anglosphere couldn't possibly come without *some* consequences. "Blowback" is older than television.

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    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @01:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @01:46AM (#822933)

      And once again you apply groupist policies when it suits you. Everyone is an individual except the people you don't like, they are part of (insert nasty group) who are all uniformly horrible and should be executed for what their ancestors did.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @02:15AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @02:15AM (#822946)

      For over 1300 years, Islam has been meddling with the rest of us, and so Islam deserves blowback.

      OK, meddling is an understatement. They destroyed a Christian civilization in Egypt, a Buddhist civilization in Afghanistan, and a Zoroastrian civilization in Iran. This wasn't friendly conversion. They caused the crusades by attacking Christians who wanted to visit the holy land. They even conquered parts of Europe, including Spain.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @06:09PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @06:09PM (#823177)

        exactly, these territories have been fought over for thousands of years and the muzrats never stayed in there shitholes. kill them all until they stay where they belong.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:07AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:07AM (#823343) Journal

        Name me the religion or the empire that hasn't. This whole fucking planet is dripping with gore and screaming in agony as it whirls around a ball of nuclear hellfire, and only recently has anyone but a small few groups of devoted Dharmic religious acolytes (and the occasional Jewish or Christian mystic...) thought even for a moment that it's not supposed to be like that.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @08:02AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @08:02AM (#822997)

      Blowback by killing completely innocent people? Okay then.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @11:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @11:20AM (#823027)

        In historical, non-humanist sissy context: Yes. Just ask ancient Rome.