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In Colorado:
Concerning the regulation of digital communications, and, in connection therewith, creating the digital communications division and the digital communications commission
Session: 2021 Regular Session
Subjects: Professions & Occupations
Telecommunications & Information Technology
Bill Summary
The bill creates the digital communications division (division) . . . On an annual basis and for a reasonable fee determined by the commission, the division shall register digital communications platforms . . . such as social media platforms or media-sharing platforms, that conduct business in Colorado . . . A digital communications platform that fails to register with the division commits a class 2 misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 for each day that the violation continues.
The division shall investigate and the commission may hold hearings . . .
- Include practices that promote hate speech; undermine election integrity; disseminate intentional disinformation, conspiracy theories, or fake news; . . . .
- May include business, political, or social practices that are conducted in a manner that a person aggrieved by the practices can demonstrate are unfair or discriminatory to the aggrieved person. . . . .
- Practices that target users for purposes of collecting and disseminating users' personal data, including users' sensitive data
- Profiling users based on their personal data collected
- Selling or authorizing others to use users' personal data to provide location-based advertising or targeted advertising; or
- Using facial recognition software and other tracking technology.
The full text of the bill is here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday March 04 2021, @04:54AM (15 children)
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:51AM (6 children)
No, it is not, and since khallow is a chunky fluffy monkey of the richie worshipping neo-brain dead alt-right, I can spread dis-information about him. Did you know that once khallow was caught matriculating! Seriously, tis true! And he is constant bloviator! Also true! Not only these, but he thinks that nihilism lurks at the heart of humanity, and that his mother did not love him! All true, in the Freeze Peaches sense of the term. Godspeed, khallow! May Loki light your way, and many duplos line your path!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 04 2021, @01:26PM
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @02:26PM
Demonize everyone you disagree with and lump them all together as 'alt right white supremacist fascists' or some other moniker and you can justify anything bad that people do to them. That's what all oppressive regimes have done to justify their unwarranted actions against peaceful people.
Maybe the real villain here is you.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday March 04 2021, @03:21PM
Well, that sort of speech is creeping up on libel (or slander if you were actually *saying* it) which is one of the few areas carved away from free speech.
You can however legally say that burning gas definitely has no harmful effects on the environment, and piping car exhaust into your bedroom is a healthy and rejuvenating way to stay warm (unless you're selling cars or gas, in which case you're liable to run afoul of advertising fraud laws).
I'm pretty sure that libel, fraud, and inciting violence are pretty much the only major limitations on free speech in the US.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Subsentient on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:49PM (2 children)
Jesus Christ, I hold such contempt for the term "Freeze Peaches", as if to cheapen and demean the concept of free speech. Whoever invented that term, I want to lob frozen peaches at their head until their skull cracks open.
The Supreme Court has upheld literal skinhead rallies as free speech, and that's good, because, and let me be perfectly clear here, you cannot trust people to do the right thing. They will, without exception, abuse whatever power you grant them.
It doesn't matter if the speech is contemptible Nazi trash, because if you give people the power to restrict contemptible speech, they will invariably abuse that power to restrict "contemptible" speech too.
If you want a ministry of truth, look towards China to see how that works out.
I'm no Trumptard; I lean left, but I value freedom above any other principles, and so should you.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @12:14AM (1 child)
If you do not like such mockery then start getting outspoken against all the other shitposters. "Freeze Peach" is a mockery of the people who think the First Amendment allows them to override the free speech and freedom of association of others.
No one has a right to a Twitter account, anyone can be banned from a store if the owner doesn't want that person's frozen peaches disrupting their business. Part of the mockery is because these rightwing lunatics are crying foul now that they are getting the ol' boot, but they were perfectly happy to Cancel Kapernick, Dixie Chicks, and so many others.
The term is stupid, and is reserved for people that bastardize the First Amendment. We've tried discussion, we've tried reason, nothing breaks through the propaganda brainwashing, so now we mock their hypocrisy and ignorance. Trying to play nice and rise above their childish tactics just results in drawn out trolling where we play whack-a-mole with their disinformation while trying to kick fieldgoals through posts mounted on a bullet train.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05 2021, @11:28PM
i thought it was just a type of virtue signaling of the type of ignorant and proud presentation--even if they aren't, but are especially trying to fit in and look like a bully by mocking intellectual speech?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 04 2021, @04:41PM (1 child)
You may be allowed to say something in the US, but it can still have consequences.
Fun activities you can try at home!
Try shouting fire in a crowded theater. There is already court precedent for this.
Try inciting a riot.
Try disrupting a courtroom proceeding. Extra credit: try threatening the judge, witnesses, attorneys and officers and their families.
Try constantly interrupting the officer who stopped you for a minor traffic infraction. Extra credit: try threatening the officer and their family.
Try talking about bombs in airports -- even jokingly.
Try threatening the US President (no matter who is in power) and see if the Secret Service wants to have a chat with you.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:23PM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 04 2021, @04:48PM (2 children)
Disinformation can also get you on the wrong end of a multi billion dollar defamation lawsuit. Just ask:
* Sidney Powell
* Rudy Giuliani
* Lou Dobbs
* Fox News
* Mike Pillow (sic, very sic)
. . . and others who slip my mind just now.
Of course, truth of the statements made is an absolute defense against a defamation suit.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:25PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @06:52PM
Yeah I know, being a defanded in a lawsuit means someone definitely is guilty of something. It doesn't mean that our justice system is dysfunctional to the benefit of lawyers.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:15PM (1 child)
Paid speech by a foreign government or citizen to affect a US election would another example of illegal speech.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 04 2021, @08:36PM
52 USC ยง30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals [house.gov]
(a) Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for-
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or
(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday March 05 2021, @12:55AM
If disinformation were illegal, they would have to get rid of all religious communications.
And most political communications too.
Not to mention advertising.
So, that's never going to happen.