A Call to Amend Section 230 for Social Media Transparency
Amid growing bipartisan agreement that increased regulation of social media platforms and their content moderation policies is needed, the path forward remains...
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Amid growing bipartisan agreement that increased regulation of social media platforms and their content moderation policies is needed, the path forward remains...
We need privacy use laws. and transparency, doing more to reform what's happening out there. i'm just tired of hearing "trust us," and it's time to protect those moms and dads that have been struggling with those kids. >> section 230, which is the law that shields internet companies from liability or content posted online, that was written in 1996. my cell phone was the size of a football. mark zuckerberg was 11. he didn't even have his bar mitzvah at that point let alone anything else. w what is facebook doing in this lawsuit? >> why is congress not up for this? >> i do think it's important t...
Multi-billion-dollar investments we've made into algorithm systems, machine learning systems, they should be held to account if necessary by regulation, so people can match what our systems say they should do from what actually happens. as i said earlier, you can't design regulation that intervenes in realtime in the way that human beings interact every millisecond of the day. but in terms of trance psptrans yes. >> do you support section 230, the section that holds people to liability, from people who act due to engagement. >> i do think section 230 should be changed. let me suggest a better ...
Passes on their platforms. i think the way to perhaps change section 230, my suggestion would be to make that protection, which is afforded to online companies like facebook, contingent on them applying the systems and their policies as they're supposed to. and if they fail to do that, they would then have that liability protection removed. that seems to us, at least, perhaps a sensible change to consider to section 230. >> one last question before i let you go. for our viewers watching right now, most of them use your platforms. how much time do you recommend they spend on facebook, on instag...
The liability is too great.