Posted on May 20, 2022
After Buffalo Massacre, Calls Grow for Gov’t to Regulate Social Media Hate
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Calls are growing for heavier restrictions on social media platforms after a white supremacist live-streamed his shooting spree in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, resulting in 10 deaths and three wounded. While the video was removed from Twitch within minutes, platforms such as Twitter and Facebook allowed it to circulate for days and gain over a million views. The 18-year-old shooter was radicalized through online forums such as 4chan, according to a racist screed he authored. “What we are dealing with is the backend business models that are creating a structure where certain things are being able to be profited from, certain things travel differently, and hate-filled content has more of a space to be engaged with,” says Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change. Color of Change has called for social media platforms to institute changes to their terms of service and urged Twitch to conduct a racial equity audit.
After Buffalo Massacre, Calls Grow for Gov’t to Regulate Social Media Hate
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Regulate social media? Is that not what Biden tried and then shut down?
I agree something needs to be done but I am not sure just what. Who would make the decisions necessary to regulate the media? What would be the results of such regulating? Where would the line be drawn?
Technology has far exceeded our laws and social conduct. Even here on RP we see comments made that would never be done face to face.
Interesting topic.
I agree something needs to be done but I am not sure just what. Who would make the decisions necessary to regulate the media? What would be the results of such regulating? Where would the line be drawn?
Technology has far exceeded our laws and social conduct. Even here on RP we see comments made that would never be done face to face.
Interesting topic.
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Let them rant, BUT, follow up on them. It doesn't do anything to stop the violence...this way we know who they are. NY has a "red flag" law and law enforcement failed to enforce it as they often do...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."If these companies had a level of accountability, you better believe that the innovators in Silicon Valley would figure out how to engage. I think that there is this idea that regulation and accountability stifles innovation. But what we know is that climate innovation has helped in so many ways give us new types of vehicles and new types of ways to actually move from place to place. Innovation can both make us safe, and it can actually spark — or, regulation can make us safe and help us be more innovative. And that’s what we have to focus on. But at the end of the day, none of us should have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg or Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, or all of these companies to actually decide whether or not they’re going to keep us safe and to balance that up against their growth and their profit, because they will always choose their growth and profit over our lives, because they’ve proven it time and time again."...
..."If these companies had a level of accountability, you better believe that the innovators in Silicon Valley would figure out how to engage. I think that there is this idea that regulation and accountability stifles innovation. But what we know is that climate innovation has helped in so many ways give us new types of vehicles and new types of ways to actually move from place to place. Innovation can both make us safe, and it can actually spark — or, regulation can make us safe and help us be more innovative. And that’s what we have to focus on. But at the end of the day, none of us should have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg or Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, or all of these companies to actually decide whether or not they’re going to keep us safe and to balance that up against their growth and their profit, because they will always choose their growth and profit over our lives, because they’ve proven it time and time again."...
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