Comment by dmix
4 years ago
> Why do social media companies get to decide the type of content you see and also skirt publisher laws?
There should be laws telling media companies what to publish? So people don't read FUDy articles that people always seem to seek out and demand? And these laws exist for other mediums?
When I was a kid our nightly news broadcast was full of crime and moral-panics news clips, people eat that stuff up always. I doubt it was much different in terms of gossip and social conversations.
We don’t need any new laws. We just need to apply existing publisher laws to social media companies which are outright acting as publishers.