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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: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @10:43AM
I was very pleased to be a +1 insightful about this. This isn't about regulatory capture directly, it's that Facebook knows that it's currently #1 and that it it will slip down unless the government steps in to make it hard for its replacement to get a foothold.
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