Should social media companies be treated like media?

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That would mean certain additional laws are applied. Like FCC licenses, foreign ownership, etc.

Stoner710 · Accepted Answer

Depends on how the present themselves, Ima use Facebook as an example. If Facebook want to allow free speech like we would see in the town square of the old days on telephone companies then they shouldn’t be treated like media. For example if Verizon cut off our phone call if I’m talking about the hunter Biden scandal or an actually ridiculous theory like QAnon they should be held as media companies and suffer the same regulation. In other words if Facebook doesn’t want to the same regulation as media companies like the New York Times or the Washington Post or at the New York post or the DailyWire or CNN or Fox News they should allow pretty much everything on their platform unless it’s actually committing a crime like obviously you can show murder on your Facebook page nor should you be able to go raid also pornographic images is acceptable to Censor. Now if they are going to be regulating speech on my platform like the New York Times or any other publication should be treated like media companies.

although if I had my personal preference and I was the supreme dictator of the United States I would say that they had to adhere to the federal Constitution like the federal government has to it here to the federal constitution. In the United States and abroad

goaded · Accepted Answer

I don't know. Aren't cable companies exempt from FCC regulation? Otherwise, how do you explain Fox News, let alone OAN and Newsmax?

If they had to vet everything they "broadcast"/"published", there wouldn't be any social media sites. Now, that would be nice!

dustybiker · Accepted Answer

Strap them down.  In the very least they should be forced to clearly mark something as fictional unless proven fact with legitimate live sources.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It's too late for that. We just need competition and let the chips fall where they may.

Juxtapose · Answer

Nah, they should either be forced into public utilities or made into publishers so then they are liable for absolutely everything and then are doomed to death :)

exitseven · Answer

If they censor content they should be treated like media outlets and not internet companies

msc545 · Answer

No reason to regulate them

Anonymous · Answer

No, less regulated

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