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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: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 05 2021, @03:17PM (3 children)
Sure, lying and inciting violence are pretty much orthogonal to each other - but surely you agree that lies *can* be used to incite violence? As such it puts another (hard to reach) limit on the kinds of lies you can legally tell, that's all I was saying.
As for the rest - politicians are the only ones who *can* easily change the laws. All they need is agreement amongst themselves as to how they should be changed. Which is why laws increasing the power of government, or the advantages of the wealthy, tend to quietly pass without problems even when "partisan gridlock" is completely blocking all progress on bills with far greater public approval.
Even constitutional protections aren't necessarily a problem - do you see anything in the first amendment carving exceptions for libel, etc?
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 05 2021, @08:37PM (2 children)
Fair nuff. I get what you're saying now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday March 06 2021, @06:54AM (1 child)
>Name one time in human history where the group banning books and censoring speech were the good guys.
Just thought of a candidate - post WWII Germans trying to eliminate the Nazis still trying to retain relevance/regain control.
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 06 2021, @12:58PM
If you wanna think that...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.