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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @01:43PM (4 children)
"Include practices that promote hate speech; undermine election integrity; disseminate intentional disinformation, conspiracy theories, or fake news; . . . ."
As if the democrats care about election integrity. They remove all election integrity measures and claim it's to let more people vote. Heck, you even need an ID just to purchase cigarettes and alcohol but you don't even need one to vote.
What they want is they want to censor anyone that questions the election process or election results. Just like in communist countries. The establishment decides who won the elections and no one is allowed to ask questions.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @01:58PM (1 child)
As a side note I'm going to post something I posted before and expand on it a little, though it's off topic it does related to speech, culture, and ultimately votes.
The single thing that cost the republican party support is their English only mentality. I would go out on a limb and say that nothing even comes close (and it's understandable that, ideally, they want everyone to speak the same language. But, when it came to promoting their viewpoints, English only just wasn't a pragmatic implementation. The democrats saw this, swooped in with Spanish speaking liberal media outlets, and pretty much dominated the culture here). Traditionally many Hispanics were conservative. There are still many Spanish speaking churches and a strong Spanish speaking Christian community. However, when it comes to politics, here in America, for all practical purposes (ie: in Cali), pretty much ALL Spanish speaking media outlets (radio and T.V.) are liberal. So they can pretty much say whatever they want, no matter how outlandish, and there isn't a single Spanish speaking conservative outlet that will challenge them. What do you think this does to their thinking? How Spanish only speaking media consumers influence their peers (their children, their siblings, their friends) and how those peers (that may also speak English) may influence their English speaking peers as well? How this affects their culture and surrounding cultures? The republican party really dropped the ball here. If they had like a Spanish speaking Rush Limbaugh radio station decades ago I'm sure it would have substantially affected the political leanings of the Spanish community and made them way more moderate which would have ultimately affected the votes and made it less practical for the democrats to simply get more votes by allowing more people to vote.
Unless you live under a rock you pretty much know that Spanish is everywhere. Just about every grocery store, Bank, DMV, or any other business or organization you walk into (here in Cali/LA) has English and Spanish text and speakers to help out Spanish only speaking customers. Heck, some businesses have only Spanish text/posters and no English ones. Pretty much every business has long figured out that Spanish is advantageous to their bottom line. It boggles my mind that Republicans have not yet figured out, in the last thirty to forty (or more) years, that Spanish just might be advantageous to their cause. The democrats have figured this out. Why haven't the republicans?
If you compare the U.K.'s political leanings to the U.S. and to the rest of Europe they tend to be more conservative than the rest of Europe but more liberal than the U.S.? Why? Because they speak English and so English (ie: republican viewpoints expressed in English) has affected their political views over the decades. They are surrounded by other, more liberal, countries that don't speak English and so that has also affected their political views. Those other countries are more liberal partly because the Republican party doesn't try to reach out to these people in their own language. They have an English only mentality.
Look at Australia and their political leanings. They are arguably (far) more to the right than the U.S. Why? Because they aren't surrounded by countries that speak other languages and they are more English only speaking than the U.S.
How can the republicans expect to reach people from all these other countries and backgrounds if they don't even speak their language. By far, over the decades, the Republican's biggest mistake is their English only mentality (whereas democrats have distributed their message in multiple languages). Nothing even comes close. The republicans messed up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @07:29PM
California is an outlier on just about everything. Presumably the reason the DNC thought they stood any chance in Texas was because of a booming hispanic population. Want to know how you spot a conservative in Texas? Find somebody that is clearly of Mexican heritage, over the age of 30, and speaks English as their native tongue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @06:54PM
Yes, Colorado is being completely taken over by Neo-bolshevik scum.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @06:54PM
Dont worry, surely they will save us from "covid passports", iean if one cannot get an id to vote, surely they wont be able to get one to go to a restaurant.
(Score: 2) by rob_on_earth on Thursday March 04 2021, @02:38PM
so all the affected sites will check your IP and ask if you are in "Colorado" and then deny you access.
if you use a VPN then you are in breach of the T&Cs.
This happened with the EU GDPR law and non EU sites back in 2018. Ask me how I know
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @03:40PM
The first thing a government wants to do is to stifle dissent and tell you what to believe.
That's exactly why these rights -- freedom of speech, freedom to peaceably assemble, and freedom of religion -- are all in the First Amendment, at the very top of the Bill of Rights.
You can see under Democrat rule how necessary these protections are and how the Democrats and their allies have been systematically denying them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 04 2021, @08:09PM
Doesn't anyone else see this is just a tax on social media platforms? Who even cares what they're going on about. This will require a "reasonable fee" just to operate in Colorado. What's a reasonable fee? $5? $50,000? For small internet hobbyists and startups that try to operate a website in Colorado this will be a deal breaker. For websites operated outside of Colorado this will have as much effect as regulating the pirate bay.
This is nothing more than the first step into turning the internet into a pay to play. The large social media sites like Facebook will love this! It eliminates competition before it can even start and only the wealthy will get to cash in.
Next up, only multi-billion tech companies will be allowed to host anything on the "free" internet. Might as well call it what it is: cable TV 2.0. Without the local access channels...
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Friday March 05 2021, @07:17PM
I misread the last sentence as „Using facial recognition software and other trackobiology”. A Freudian slip in reading text, perhaps?
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