Social media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking programme in the United States.
  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Considering this moderation is often done in cooperation with government censors, and the executives working at these platforms are often former government, the lines are blurred enough that I don’t support it.

    We need more legal blocks to prevent the government from getting around the constitutional protections by coordinating with corporate third parties.