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| Reno, 2018 |
Electronic Frontier Foundation created a bit of a stir
Sunday when it tweeted a reference to a UK Guardian article interviewing ten
people on how to fix social media, now that radicalization, as shown by the
January 6 riot (as well as Charlottesville, Christchurch, and other such
incidents) seems so out of control.
Banning Trump and maybe some of his political accomplices won’t itself
fix the problem.
Admirably, one expert reminded readers of the Santa Clara Principles, which are supposed to provide some due process when speakers
are to be taken down.
One executive said that Section 230 should not be construed
as providing platforms from liability immunity for what some speakers inspire
others to actually do. This sentiment
was echoed a few times and seems to call into question “gratuitous” political
speech, or implicit content, and encourage platforms or even hosts to audit the
intentions of their customers.
The executive was from Reddit was particularly telling, as she seemed to favor cross-checking and blacklisting of bad actors.
Hunter Avallone, whom I met at the Minds conference in Philadelphia on Aug 31, 2019, now talks about censorship with a new view.
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