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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 Saturday March 13 2021, @02:50PM
Partly because they've been trained to by the news media, education system, entertainment media, social media, their politicians, online encyclopedias, online dictionaries, etc... And partly because there's nowhere they can trust anymore to find out the truth.
Yup. Legally required retractions in the event of a provable error with as much air time/page space, in the same time/page slots as the original error received would be nice as well. High bar for proof and as decided by a jury, of course.
As for censorship, how do you tell the difference between an intentional lie and just being wrong? Are the folks at MSNBC running deliberate, malicious psyops or are they just genuinely idiots that will believe anything that suits their narrative, and only things that suit their narrative? Do you criminalize being wrong?
The least harmful remedy? Do absolutely nothing. The only alternative is a Ministry of Truth deciding what is legal to say and what isn't. Like right now we have Facebook and Twitter being the arbiters of what medical science is true and what isn't. With punishment for saying anything else, even if you're actually qualified to hold an expert opinion. And they're benign as hell compared to what a government version would be.
The correct answer to bad speech is always going to be more speech. Sunlight will always be the best disinfectant, so spread sunlight. If there's provable malice that falls under slander, libel, defamation, or the like, so much the better.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.