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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: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 05 2021, @10:59AM (3 children)
Pay attention to case law. Ours is pretty badly fucked up.
Also, you might want to go swimming when it warms up a bit. Dive down to the bottom. Sit there until you realize that not all atmospheres are gaseous and the implications of that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @06:16PM (2 children)
I know you're thick-skinned and unlikely to be much bothered by ff39, but that user seems to thrive on always making toxic posts attacking, flaming and generally just trolling the other users of SN. He/she seems enjoy adding lots of negativity and very little to no positivity. He/she makes so many grammatical mistakes, I guess English is probably no more than his/her second language. Would you consider banning him/her and the associated IP addresses? The user could try to return under a new ID / IP by proxy, but the sockpuppetry would be obvious by their style after only a few posts. Permanent AC here.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 11 2021, @12:51PM (1 child)
Nope. Two reasons:
1) We have an ideological objection to censoring any speech that can remotely be called signal rather than noise (which is why we only ban spammers).
2) Bans, account or IP, are trivial to get around if you're looking to make a nuisance of yourself. Infinite Whack-a-Mole ceases being fun after a couple of hours.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 11 2021, @01:45PM
OK.