Comment on Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority
TheBeege@lemmy.world 9 months agoI don’t think you put much thought into this, friend. Many social media companies are incorporated in the US to make use of US ad revenue sources. Where the servers are hosted doesn’t matter. The legal corporate entity is the important bit.
And as mentioned in the other comment, privacy protections would operate the same way, seeing as they are literally rules for social media, among other sites.
But yes, privacy protections would be great. Let’s do that
anon232@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Even if that’s true I wouldn’t put it past the companies to find ways to circumvent regulations, and I think trying to advocate for regulating them sets a precedent against the free and open internet that websites are under government control, which shouldn’t be the case. Imagine if government started requiring government ID’s to access all websites (including Lemmy, which is a social network).
Spost@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
It’s true that companies will probably try to find ways to circumvent any rules placed on them, but I don’t think that’s a good reason to not make the legislation.
If regulating social media is an infringement on the free and open internet, does that same logic apply to everything else we regulate? Government mandated ID checking would certainly be bad, but is it a terrible infringement on the internet to say, for instance, “hey, you can’t advertise to children in these ways”?