Facebook insider testimony is valuable, but Congress should not make policy based on a former Facebook exec's recommendations any more than they would regulate cigarettes by listening to Big Tobacco. On Section 230, they should solicit testimony from what's left of the open web
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Big Tobacco is the preferred metaphor for social media, but it would be better to think about it like junk food. It overloads a sensory system that never evolved to handle such direct stimulation, but it also serves a deep human need. Vilifying Lays over potato chips is silly.
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The issue of monopoly is orthogonal to the problems of weaving social media so durably into our daily lives, but unfortunately the two have been conflated and there is almost a belief that splitting Instagram off Facebook will make influencers start reading Spinoza or something
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Finally, any attempt to regulate Facebook has to accept and respect the fact that it is a multinational entity and that the global effects of regulation by the American government will be profound and complex. Congress, which has the power, needs to listen to those voices as well
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A synonym for "algorithm" is "spam filter", and the proposal to make every site that uses algorithms liable for speech is equivalent to repealing Section 230 entirely. The confusion around this point shows that Congress is not getting good information about how the web works.
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That’s a big “if”.
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It feels pretty clear to me after several years of going around in circles that we don’t actually want to have that broader conversation and to talk about why people do what they do, either online or off. Seems bad!
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