In January 2018 Germany passed the NetzDG law which required platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down perceived illegal content within 24 hours or seven days, depending on the charge, or risk a fine of €50 million ($60 million) fines. In July 2018 representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter denied to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary committee that they censor content for political reasons. During the hearing Republican members of Congress criticized the social media companies for politically motivated practices in removing some content, a charge the…
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55% No |
38% Yes |
45% No |
5% Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media |
6% No, social media companies are private and should not be regulated by the government |
2% Yes, social media companies are politically biased and need to be regulated |
4% No, the government should not determine what is fake or real news |
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I don't agree the Government should regulate Social media because of Fake News and misinformation but People should be required to officially register to be able to use social media to instill some form of accountability.
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No, but particularly bad examples that are affiliated with hostile foreign governments (such as TikTok) should be
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Depends on the severity
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No, government can work to produce an environment that does not produce such fake news and offer help to those effected. In serious cases, some sort of sanction is needed.
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yes, but we must be careful not to break the internet. The wording of the law can lead to sites either over-regulating and removing anything remotely controversial or regulating nothing.
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No, but government has the duty to combat misinformation by providing accurate information
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Both the Economist and the WSJ state explicitly that the main reason the TikTok ban picked up so much bipartisan steam in DC since Oct. 7 was because of how much Israel criticism was allowed to air and circulate on the platform (see below).WSJ:‘It was slow going until Oct. 7. The attack that day in Israel by Hamas and the ensuing conflict in Gaza became a turning point in the push against TikTok, Helberg said. People who historically hadn’t taken a position on TikTok became concerned with how Israel was portrayed in the videos and what they saw as an increase in antisemitic content posted to the app. Anthony Goldbloom, a San Francisco-based data scientist and tech executive, started analyzing data TikTok published in its dashboard for ad buyers showing the number of times users watched videos with certain hashtags. He found far more views for videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags than those with pro-Israel hashtags. While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags.’
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Steven Mnuchin is putting together a consortium to try to buy TikTok, the Former Treasury Secretary said.“I think the legislation should pass and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday. “It’s a great business and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok.”Mnuchin’s comments come two days after the House voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would ban the popular app from operating in the U.S. or force its Chinese owner ByteDance to sell.
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Rukchanok "Ice" Srinork, 28, had pleaded not guilty to posting tweets critical of the monarchy.She has since been released on bail worth $14,000 (£11,180) pending an appeal, on the condition that she must not repeat the offence.Ice's Move Forward party, which won this year's election, had urged reform of the lese-majeste laws.But the unelected senate used this as the main reason for blocking the party's attempt to form a government.On Wednesday, Ice was found guilty of insulting the monarch by a Bangkok court for two posts made before she joined Move Forward - in the first, she criticised the country's handling of the pandemic, and the second was a repost of a tweet that was said to be critical of the monarchy.Ice will lose her seat if she eventually goes to jail.Hers was perhaps the most dramatic of many shock victories by the young Move Forward candidates in the May general election - she won her seat in Bang Bon, a constituency near Bangkok which had been the fiefdom of one of Thailand's most powerful political clans for decades, after a no-frills campaign largely on a bicycle.
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