FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tomorrow: Trump installs loyalist with zero qualifications as head of FCC.

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  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You misunderstand. This IS Trump’s chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

    He’s complaining about tech companies “censoring” conservatives for “speaking their minds”, aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

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  • skepller@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I wonder how long until Elmo arrives to “make the FTC more efficient” lmao

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    • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We need fELONs crack team from X -said no one

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  so musk will be investigated over how he runs xitter, right?

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He’s already investigated himself and found that Xitter is a bastion of freedom. Same goes for Truth Social.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Compelled speech it is then?

  So when are bakers going to be forced to bake cakes for gay couples?

  Oh, right, hypocrites. Naturally.

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  • reiterationstation@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do as I say not as I do is power of no one stops you.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Reveling in their hypocrisy won’t save anything.

    They don’t care that you think and I see them as hypocrites.

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It slightly saves my sanity. Only slightly though.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For them, them being able to be hypocrites is a “cool thing”

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If we wind up in a situation where the EU mandates a form of censorship that the US bans, I assume that the platforms in question would have to separate their EU and US users and sites.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not censorship, it’s “censorship”. You know, like banning nazis, calls for harming women etc.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Generally speaking, when a much stronger party forces upon you a mechanism, it doesn’t work in your favor. Whether they call it free speech (for bot campaigns too, while you get banned) or moderation (your opponent insults you in every comment, and they are fine, but you insult them once - you’re banned).

      The super weirdest thing is that people again and again believe that the strong party belonging to “their” side will do things right this time in history.

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I doubt it. They could just sensor based on location.

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  • techforwhat@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It should be interesting to see how it plays out, indeed.

    I don’t expect the US will entirely ban all forms of content moderation. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US moved more in the direction of the EU Digital Services Act: required transparency on recommendation algorithms and some sort of NGO trusted flagger system.

    Also, similar (but opposite) to Splinternet: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When they say tech censorship they mean people should be allowed to be racist

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  • francisco_1844@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And post as much disinformation as they want without “censorship”.

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And by “free speech”, we mean you have to publish what we tell you.

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

    Never stops being true.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good thing we have a fair and balanced FTC? Right?

  Lets see:

  We have 2 Democrats 2 Republicans, and…

  oh… one vacant seat 👀

  (also, one of the Democrats was appointed in 2018, we all know who was president then)

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey government how’s it going

  …

  …

  Jesus fucking christ

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• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know the point of this is probably just intimidation but 35 companies? Are there 35 social networks that moderate content? Why is Apple included? Is there some conspiracy theory that they’re censoring conservative App Store reviews?

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Defunded in 3…2…

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