Two good links on social media stories
Aug. 1st, 2018 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrusFirst, Twitter is not "shadow banning" prominent Republicans as claimed by Vice, President Trump, and lots of Republicans.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180731/17372940341/bad-reporting-grandstanding-congressmen-tweeting-president-combine-clusterfuck-about-twitter.shtml
Applying the duty of care to social media. There has been a lot of effort to make social media providers responsible for various content moderation by treating them as publishers. For lots of reasons, this is highly problematic. But it does make sense to impose a duty of care consistent with the duty imposed on other prevent entities that maintain spaces or services open to the general public. We do not, for example, need to treat a pet store owner as a publisher if he negligently allows a dog to bite a customer.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180731/17372940341/bad-reporting-grandstanding-congressmen-tweeting-president-combine-clusterfuck-about-twitter.shtml
Applying the duty of care to social media. There has been a lot of effort to make social media providers responsible for various content moderation by treating them as publishers. For lots of reasons, this is highly problematic. But it does make sense to impose a duty of care consistent with the duty imposed on other prevent entities that maintain spaces or services open to the general public. We do not, for example, need to treat a pet store owner as a publisher if he negligently allows a dog to bite a customer.
