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Author
News
Date
April 13, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

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Adam Seagrave, Cancel culture, Echo chamber (social media), Reality czar, Social media bubble, Social media echo chamber}

When Half Our Time Is Spent Online, We Live in a Delusional World

_{A historian warns that many of us now live in bubbles where we need interact only with people who agree with us} _{News

April 13, 2021

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Censorship, Media, Social Media}

Historian Adam Seagrave (pictured) reflects on the finding that more than half of Americans spend more than half of their waking time in “virtual worlds”: Living through electronic media, especially social media, causes us to live in entirely different worlds even from near neighbors: “The 50 percent threshold represents a tipping point that renders dialogue, deliberation, civic friendship, and compromise extraordinarily difficult in any society.” According to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey, roughly eight in ten Americans go online at least daily. Almost three in ten American adults say they are “almost constantly” online. According to a 2019 Digital Information World report, internet users in the United States spend an average of 6 hours and 31 minutes online every Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 18, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Big Social Media, Big Tech, Decentralization (of social media), Gallup poll on social media, Maryland (taxing social media), Reality czar, Section 230, Social media (federal control), Social media (new entrants), Social media (polls), social media (pressure to share wealth), Social media (state control), Social media (taxing social media), Timothy Head}

Can Big Tech and Big Social Media Be Reined In?

_{A number of strategies to limit their power or make them share the wealth are being evaluated, both among governments and private think tanks} _{News

March 18, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Social Media}

Big Tech’s recent censorship moves have revived the debate about what, exactly, the new social media are? Are they publishers like HarperCollins or carriers like Ma Bell? Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act exempts the Bigs from liability as publishers. But, unlike carriers, they can act against messages in their system that they don’t like. Generally, they benefit from a fuzziness that is not granted to other institutions. It’s probably not accidental that most Big Social Media are domiciled in the United States. Canada, to name just one other country, does not offer Twitter that protection. The scale of the conflict is expected to grow and a number of strategies to limit the Big Social Media’s power or Read More ›

Courthouse with judge's gavel and sign NO. concept of censorship and the production of restrictions and laws on restriction. Anti-popular laws, usurpation of power, conservative views. Lack of justice

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 11, 2021

Categorized
Media, Social Media, Technocracy

Tagged
America Alone (book), Canada, Disinformation, Free speech wars, Hate speech laws, Joan Donovan, Kevin Roose, Maclean's Magazine, Mark Steyn, Reality czar, Section 13 (Canada)}

“Disinformation”: Do We Really Need a “Reality Czar”?

_{Canada dodged a bullet in 2014. The United States will not be so lucky if it adopts Big Tech's new proposals against “disinformation” online} _{Denyse O'Leary

February 11, 2021

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Media, Social Media, Technocracy}

Recently, a New York Times technology columnist, back from a consult with Big Tech in Silicon Valley, urged U.S. President to appoint a “reality czar” to go after people who provide “disinformation” online. He concedes, “It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll grant.” Well yes, rather. And the czar would probably soon find himself in conflict with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Kevin Roose (pictured), who says he has spent several years tackling “our national reality crisis”, begs us to hear the czar’s supporters out: This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe Read More ›