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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) by helel on Monday April 01 2019, @08:48AM

    by helel (2949) on Monday April 01 2019, @08:48AM (#823001)

    I have to agree here. Right now he faces bad publicity if he allows anti-vaccination posts, non-PC posts, and the like to remain on the site. With a government panel that such removal can be reported to either the US government has to get into the censorship game by agreeing "this speech is not protected" or they "force" facebook to allow these posts thereby allowing facebook to continue to advertise against them.