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Justice Clarence Thomas suggests US should regulate Twitter and Facebook:
Justice Clarence Thomas suggested on Monday that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that, he said, have come to have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech.
The provocative and controversial opinion comes as Twitter banned former President Donald Trump from its platform for violating its rules on incitement of violence and some conservatives have called on more regulations in the tech world to combat what they view as political bias on social media.
"If part of the problem is private, concentrated control over online content and platforms available to the public, then part of the solution may be found in doctrines that limit the right of a private company to exclude, " Thomas wrote in a 12-page concurring opinion Monday.
Thomas's stance will raise concerns from critics who point out that social media platforms have not historically been subject to such content regulation, but instead have been left to devise their policies on their own.
[...] Today's digital platforms, Thomas argued, "provide avenues for historically unprecedented amounts of speech," but he said it also concentrates control "of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties."
[...] "The extent to which that power matters for purposes of the First Amendment and the extent to which that power could lawfully be modified raise interesting and important questions," he added.
[...] The conservative justice said that the court will soon have "no choice" but to address how legal doctrines apply to "privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms."
Katie Fallow, a First Amendment expert at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University said that the group actually shares Thomas concern about the power over speech being concentrated in the hands of so few. "But we think that concentrating that same power in the hands of government regulators will not necessarily solve the problems associated with social media companies." Instead, she worried it might exacerbate the issue.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday April 07 2021, @01:35PM (5 children)
Dying organizations go left. Cause and effect unclear in individual situations, but the downward slope of an org is always packed with the most abhorrently toxic Judaism. Naturally that "type" is going to be in conflict with everyone and historically led to pogroms and such. They just can't get along.
FB and other social media makes a lot of money off advertising so they have a motivation to ... juice their numbers a bit. So using made up numbers "everything is great", for awhile.
Now if my theory is true, then google stories about facebook decline in use should exist. Seems they do. Appears legacy social media is nearly dead to young users "The number of young Facebook users (age between 12 to 34) rapidly declined by almost 20% in 2 years (Edison Research, 2019)" and so on and so forth.
Eventually these situations always seem to turn into a SEC investigation where corporations complain they were falsely sold advertising that was seen and clicked on 99% of the time by bots and the 10-Q and related reports are not correctly reporting the financial situation.
So if legacy social media is a dead toxic Judaic ghetto of infinite Israeli propaganda, where are the kids going now? My guess is mass media may finally be dead, and good riddance?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday April 07 2021, @02:48PM (1 child)
When you go right and start saying things like certain groups of people are bad, businesses that follow that path watch their customer bases shrink. That affects voting, too. ;)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 08 2021, @02:44AM
Except it's the progressives saying that nowadays. That's not something you hear from the right much unless you call criminals a group we shouldn't be saying are bad.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday April 07 2021, @05:33PM
At Albuquerque, right? No, left!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @06:48PM (1 child)
Defying your predictions? All of history =)
We know you're a racist piece of shit, trying to whine and pretend you're part of the superior majority is quite entertaining. Then I remember that you idjits get all violent and murdery when you don't get your way, kinda ruins the fun =( Isn't murder like one of those things you're told not to do by the book of goodness? Don't murder brah, its not good brah.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:14AM
The snowflakes are triggered by racist dirtbags around here getting called out. Feel free to peruse VLM's comment history, he's gotten a little less overt since the US chose not-fascist-racism for leadership, like the true coward every racist dipshit is.