There is a hearing at the House of Representatives
today. With the House Judiciary Committee, “The Filtering Practices of Social
Media Platforms” at 10 AM today in the Rayburn building, with the main link
here. I haven’t been able to find live video
coverage anywhere yet.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has an article by Corynne
McSherry and India McKinney, “Platform censorship won’t fix the Internet” where EFF submitted a statement in advance (embedded
PDF) here. The statement mentions an instance where
some LGBTQ videos were put into restricted mode (age verification by sign in)
by YouTube. I usually won’t embed videos in
restricted mode.
The EFF article suggests that it was suddenly
disinvited from speaking. I don’t know
why.
Censorship debate certainly has focused on FOSTA and
Backpage recently, but also on protecting minors (the COPA case of the 2000’s).
But more recently censorship has included terror, violence promotion, weapons,
fake news or election manipulation (itself an obscure issue dating back to the
early 2000’s – I’ve covered it here before), white supremacy, and even some new
trends like Incel (the Toronto incident).
“Gratuitous speech” and “implicit content” could come up as issues, and
they are much more subtle. (See the Facebook
guidelines on Monday, April 23 posting).
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