John Oliver discusses Facebook’s controversial new plans for content moderation and which Animorphs he would and would not kill with his car.I've written a lot about Facebook over the years, going at least as far back as Facebook: There is no such thing as a free lunch during the first year of the blog. The entries that I think connect best to Oliver's segment are U.S. House passes NDAA in defiance of Trump threatening to veto it over renaming bases named after Confederate generals and Section 230 and Samantha Bee, CNBC, and Vox examine tech companies suspending Trump from social media, both of which provide background for Zuckerberg's actions regarding moderation and their connections to Hoover Cleveland. I wrote the following in the former post.
Trump wants to repeal Section 230 so that Twitter and Facebook can't flag his posts, which he considers censorship. Personally, I think that concept of censorship is kooky, but that's not the worst of it. As the Vox video describes, changing that part of the law could cause chaos on the internet, where a lot of commerce happens, to say nothing of free expression like mine. Any change would have to require a lot of thought and care so that companies have protection so long as they exercise responsible and reasonable moderation. Unfortunately, one side of the aisle wants even less moderation. Consequently, I don't think Congress will come up with a solution if the two sides don't agree on the problem. Sigh.I was more optimistic in the second post.
Yes, Section 230 will likely change as a result of the failed self-coup and more in the way Democrats want than what Trump and other conservatives say they want, although they would likely have been hurt worse than they expected if they had gotten their way.That didn't happen. Instead, Hoover Cleveland got what he wanted without a change in the law. All he had to do was
I close with this cartoon I first shared in 2011.
Stay tuned for another evergreen entry I can share next month.
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