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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, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday March 04 2021, @05:07AM (4 children)
This law is broken because it tries to both protect and harm users at the same time. You guys need at least two different laws for doing this.
I'd like to see a robust legal definition of fake news though. Such could be used perfectly against religions...
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 04 2021, @06:40AM (2 children)
Oh! I think I have true news for you - it won't work for just any religion.
For instance, fake as it may or may not be, the Bible is old. Parts of it are as old as the Old Testament, I reckon the Old Testament is as old as that. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday March 05 2021, @01:40AM (1 child)
Wrong.
Since the original meaning of Latin:evangelium (English:gospel), originally transfered from ancient Greek is "joyful news"
[Middle English, from Old English gōdspel (ultimately translation of Greek euangelion) : gōd, good; see good + spel, news.]
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Evangelium [thefreedictionary.com]
then such law will apply against Christianity just perfectly out of box.
I observe similar legal catches in both Talmud and Quran too, but keeping those to myself for now.
Give me that law against fake news and I'll become overpowered.
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 05 2021, @02:37AM
I regret I can't mod this more than once: Touche, Informative, Interesting even Insightful (in the meaning of "providing an insight").
Hat off to you for this one.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:00AM
Yeah, they mix censorship with consumer protection. But isn't that the way of bad laws -- do a little good and a lot of bad? It certainly makes the campaign talking points east -- "SoAndSo voted against protecting your privacy from scammy marketers!" It's a very cynical ploy.