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Facebook Is NOT The Internet; Stop Regulating As If It Was
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Regulators seem to think that Facebook is the internet
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Wed, May 19th 2021 10:45am
Mike Masnick
One of the earliest themes on Techdirt, going back decades, is the difficulty of jurisdiction on the internet that easily crosses nearly all geographical borders. We wrote a post back in 2002 raising the question of how is it possible to enforce local laws on a borderless internet. Of course, that hasn t meant that various countries haven t tried either trying to issue global injunctions or going even more extreme. One preferred idea is to just
jail the employees of a company who happen to be in the country that wants content blocked. Over the years we ve seen that happen (or attempt to happen) in Italy, Brazil, and recently India.
Executive Summary
Over the past year, governments have made unprecedented demands for online platforms to police speech, and many companies are rushing to comply. But in their response to calls to remove objectionable content, social media companies and platforms have all too often censored valuable speech. While it is reasonable for companies to moderate some content, no one wins when companies and governments can censor online speech without transparency, notice, or due process.
This year’s Who Has Your Back report examines major tech companies’ content moderation policies in the midst of massive government pressure to censor. We assess companies’ policies in six categories: