The latest news out of the latest congressional hearing on tech platforms’ content moderation practices was from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, who said that he’s open to a rethink of Section 230.
That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way that they moderate third-party content.
But just six days before a presidential election, the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday with Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Alphabet-Google CEO Sundar Pichai was, for anyone who’s been following this stuff, exactly what you would think.
One after another, Republicans griped that their voices were being stifled on the platforms, with inconsistently deployed policies or what a number of lawmakers see as bias against the right (counterpoint: Facebook’s top performing links over the past 24 hours).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx), who promoted the hearing with a meme akin to a prizefight,...
That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way that they moderate third-party content.
But just six days before a presidential election, the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday with Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Alphabet-Google CEO Sundar Pichai was, for anyone who’s been following this stuff, exactly what you would think.
One after another, Republicans griped that their voices were being stifled on the platforms, with inconsistently deployed policies or what a number of lawmakers see as bias against the right (counterpoint: Facebook’s top performing links over the past 24 hours).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx), who promoted the hearing with a meme akin to a prizefight,...
- 10/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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