Given the ideologically liberalnear-monoculture at publicly funded universities, major newspapers, and networks, the vast preexisting administrative apparatus in the federal governmentand in management and corporate culture for most of Silicon Valley, for that matterit is the left that has more to lose from not regulating the Internet as the sole cultural medium not largely dominated by liberal perspectives. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Therefore, especially in so tense an environment, there need to be fora to talk about the most polarizing of issues. In fact, it explicitly protects non-neutrality, albeit exercised in good faith.. Rather, regulation or laws that set baselines could perform an end run around Section 230, leading to a reformulation of indemnification perhaps more powerful for Facebooks new incarnation, but that effectively moots much of Section 230 for other social platforms. Nellie Bowles, Fighting Big Tech Makes for Some Uncomfortable Bedfellows, New York Times, July 14, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/technology/big-tech-strange-bedfellows.html?auth=login-email&login=email. Today, the Federal Register is over 80,000 pages long. Displaced transitory giants like MySpace and America Online were singular. Tamar Lapin, Trump Uses Old Obama Clip to Make Immigration Point, New York Post, October 23, 2018. https://nypost.com/2018/10/23/trump-uses-old-obama-clip-to-make-immigration-point/. Regulation has costs and benefits, but for too long the costs were largely ignored. As a result, theres too much regulation at all levels of government and recent research highlights how all this regulation is particularly harmful to the countrys poor. See the Warner White Paper Draft Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms, 2018, at https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf#_ga=2.264215045.863640255.1563228787-239234713.1563228787. Zuckerberg asserts, I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. He endorses alliances with governments around the world to police harmful online speech, a move that would erect impenetrable global barriers to future social media alternatives to Facebook. Therefore, the creation of new regulatory oversight bodies and filing requirements to exile politically disfavored opinions on the one hand, and efforts to force the inclusion of conservative content on the other, should both be rejected. Efforts to certify objectivity will neither protect the public nor safeguard conservative speech. Center for American Progress, Appendix: Recommended Internet Company Corporate Policies and Terms of Service to Reduce Hateful Activities, 2018, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2018/10/24111621/ModelInternetCompanies-appendix.pdf. It was supposed to be easy. Imagine if Zuckerberg were specifically referencing socialism when he proclaimed at Facebooks 2019 F8 Developer Conference: Were taking a more proactive role in making sure that all of our partners and developers use our services for good. The Clean Water Act of 1972 showed a 25% improvement in water quality and increased the number of rivers safe for fishing by 12%. [A]t some level the question of what speech should be acceptable and what is harmful needs to be defined by regulation.1. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2018/10/25/459668/curbing-hate-online-companies-now/. In this political environment, policy makers, pressure groups, and even some technology sector leaders whose enterprises have benefited greatly from free expressionare pursuing the imposition of online content and speech standards, along with other policies that would seriously burden their emerging competitors. Updates? Sasse Grills Zuckerberg: If Youre Going to Police Hate Speech, Can You Define It? National Review, April 10, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ben-sasse-mark-zuckerberg-hate-speech-policy-definitions/. When there is significant negative public attention directed at an industry or business generally, regulatory pressures increase. In principle, such rules can be enforced through the judicial system, but because courts can be slow and costly, regulations are a useful alternative. As the noted Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises noted, in his classic 1944 work, Bureaucracy: The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. Opponents of the rule, who are fighting it in court, contend the regulation is so broad that it covers ditches, ponds and streams that only flow when it rains. Policy makers must avoid creating an environment in which Internet giants benefit from protective regulation that prevents the emergence of new competitors in the decentralized infrastructure of the marketplace of ideas. If you are a computer repair technician that violates this law, or if you are a regular citizen that has a computer repaired by someone not in compliance with the law, you can be fined up to $4,000 and you can be put in jail for a year. Regulations need to be evaluated one by one to determine whether they should be retained, replaced, or repealed. For each of these rows, there are 15 columns identifying employees by gender and ethnicity not just white, black or Latino, but also Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Asian, Native American or Alaska Native, or Two or More Races. Employers also would have to tally the total number of hours worked by employees in each pay band over the past 12 months. Selina Wang, Twitters Jack Dorsey Adds His Voice to Support of Regulation in Tech, Bloomberg, April 3, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/twitter-s-dorsey-adds-his-voice-to-support-of-regulation-in-tech. Different countries make deregulation decisions through different channels. In order to close down a business, Milwaukee requires you to purchase an expensive license, you must submit a huge pile of paperwork to the city regarding the inventory you wish to sell off, and you must pay a fee based on the length of your "going out of business sale" plus a two dollar charge for every $1,000 worth of inventory that you are attempting to sell off. For instance, calls for slavery reparationsredistributing assets from one group to another based on raceare unlikely to draw ire from establishment press outlets, while opposing them could well be deemed harmful.110 Again the intent here is not to defend or excoriate particular speech, harmful or otherwise. The distinction between an employee and an independent contractor is important because employees are eligible for workplace protections such as the minimum wage, overtime compensation, unemployment insurance and workers compensation. The passage of time, however, may cause such pressures to decrease, providing opportunities for an industry to seek deregulation. Regulation generally occurs for one of four reasons: 1. For instance, speech that contests dominant narratives about political and social authority, law, marriage, gender, religion or national identity may be deeply unpopular and offensive to many, yet offer intelligent critiques of conventional wisdom and not constitute any genuine incitement to hatred or violence.109. But Section 230 does not require neutrality in the treatment of user-generated content in exchange for immunity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2018/10/30/is-there-a-downside-to-activist-groups-pressuring-social-media-about-. Freedom of expression is paramount. 
Eric Boehm, Josh Hawley: What Has Technology Done for Us Lately? Reason, July 31, 2019. https://reason.com/2019/07/31/josh-hawley-what-has-technology-done-for-us-lately/. The current social media debate boils down to competing interventionist agendas. Summary. Sheryl Sandberg, A Second Update on Our Civil Rights Audit, Facebook Newsroom, June 30, 2019. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06/second-update-civil-rights-audit. The regulation is no longer effective and thus ceases to produce a socially desirable result. The process has meant a cost increase for many, especially smaller organizations. Government regulation was historically added to protect the safety and security of everyday Americans, clean the environment and to break up monopolies to allow for the free market to function properly. Another list of teams is entirely tanking their season for a lottery pick, like the High School Insider is a user-generated content website that enables high school students to post their stories and report on issues that matter to them and their communities. Navneet Alang, Inside Facebooks global constitutional convention, The Week, May 12, 2019, https://theweek.com/articles/840591/inside-facebooks-global-constitutional-convention. Health and safety 4. Omissions? Ideological commitments, therefore, shape when political decision makers seek to bring about increased regulation or deregulation. Office of Sen. Mark Warner, Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban Manipulative Dark Patterns, news release, April 9, 2019. https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/4/senators-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-manipulative-dark- patterns. Henry Fernandez, Curbing Hate Online: What Companies Should Do Now, Center for American Progress, October 25, 2018, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2018/10/25/459668/curbing-hate-online-companies-now/. Jillian C. York, How American Corporations Are Policing Online Speech Worldwide, Gizmodo, July 10, 2019, https://gizmodo.com/how-american-corporations-are-policing-online-speech-wo-1836010637. Emma Llanso, Platforms Want Centralized Censorship. The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin makes it incredibly difficult to go out of business. Regulation is the monitoring and control of a sector or business by Government or an entity appointed by Government. See Google community guidelines at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/policies/#community-guidelines. Seat belt laws increase the number of car accidents, and increase pedestrian and cyclist deaths. The Rights Misguided Call to Compel Unbiased Speech Both the lefts banned speech and the rights compelled speech agendas would require a substantial government apparatus to oversee them. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ben-sasse-mark-zuckerberg-hate-speech-policy-definitions/. Jeffrey Neuburger, FOSTA Signed into Law, Amends CDA Section 230 to Allow Enforcement Against Online Providers for Knowingly Facilitating Sex Trafficking, Proskauer New Media and Technology Law Blog, April 11, 2018, https://newmedialaw.proskauer.com/2018/04/11/fosta-signed-into-law-amends-cda-section-230-to-allow-enforcement- against-online-providers-for-knowingly-facilitating-sex-trafficking/. After deregulation, the number of airlines competing in many markets increased, and prices for air travel fell. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/trump-says-u-s-should-sue-facebook-google-in-latest-complaint. https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/06/03/the-real-reason-amazon-flip-flopped-on-internet-sales-taxes/#611028257944. Although some regulations and policies are aimed at helping businesses by (among other things) providing loans and advice to small businesses and protecting copyrights. Testimony of Carlos Monje, Director, Public Policy and Philanthropy, Twitter, Inc., Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, April 10, 2019, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Monje%20Testimony.pdf. .senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-legislation-amend-section-230-immunity-big-tech-companies; .senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-06/Ending-Support-Internet-Censorship-Act-Bill-Text.pdf. At risk, too, is the right of politicalas opposed to commercialanonymity online. Professor of business environment, ethics, and public policy at the University of New Mexico. Regulatory freedom, at least as it is measured by the Heritage and Cato indexes, is not an end in itself. Environment. Facebook needs to work with Congress to pass effective legislative guardrails, recognizing that the largest platforms, like Facebook, are going to need to be subject to a higher level of regulation in keeping with their enormous power.88. That Should Scare You, Wired, April 18, 2019, https://www.wired.com/story/platforms-centralized-censorship/. Heres the Real Background, Washington Post. The Food and Drug Administration has improved public health through its regulation of tobacco products under the Tobacco Control Act and has set standards for cosmetics, drugs, medical devices, food and more. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/technology/big-tech-strange-bedfellows.html?auth=login-email&login=email. Thats a problem since the EEOC has indicated it will use this new data to target employers who appear to be engaged in wage discrimination. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). In fact, the state even provides the fluoride toothpaste for the children. Regulation will preempt private efforts to develop sophisiticated user tools and databases. The priority is not that Facebook or Google or any other platform should remain politically neutral, but that citizens remain free to choose alternatives that might emerge and grow with the same Section 230 exemptions from which the modern online giants have long benefited. Regulation often occurs after a triggering set of eventssuch as the 1929 U.S. stock market crash, the rash of corporate scandals that occurred in the late 1990s (e.g., the Enron scandal), or the financial crisis of 200708. Section 230 notwithstanding, laws addressing misrepresentation or deceptive business practices already impose legal disciplineon companies. Such demands violate the First Amendment. Twitter bans dehumanizing posts toward religious groups, Associated Press, July 9, 2019, https://apnews.com/905d3a919d9a4c20bb62837116e16506. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. Makena Kelly, Big Techs Liability Shield Under Fire Yet Again from Republicans, The Verge, July 28, 2019, https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/28/8933871/big-techs-liability-shield-under-fire-yet-again-from-republicans. Again, the emphasis here is media, not medium. For the aim of combating wage discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to require employers with 100 or more workers to report how much they pay workers, broken down by sex and ethnicity. 
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