The social media giants are taking heat again in the wake of another terrorist attack. Should they have chief editors I ask?https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/871414116367433728 …
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Replying to @andersostlund
Editors of what? People's posts? Half the falsehoods and myths aren't links but simply text.
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Replying to @mfcompany
If I write in a newspaper and I defame somebody you can suit me or the newspaper. Why not the same for social media?
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Replying to @mfcompany
Point is, we must be able to hold somebody responsible for hate speech, defamation etc.
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Replying to @andersostlund
A) you can do that now. And b) you cannot control speech, locally or globally.
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Replying to @mfcompany
A) I know but how efficient when there are fake accounts? B) Many countries have laws against hate speech. Germany well known example.
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Replying to @andersostlund
A) fake accounts are tiny compared to misinformation spread by real ones IMO and b) Germans can sue Germans now, no?
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Replying to @mfcompany
Obviously we disagree on what constitutes a media and what constitute open air and public space.
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Replying to @andersostlund
Yes. I think it might be that we come from different legal cultures
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As for Swedish legal culture we don't have an absolute view on the law but add a lot of "what is reasonable" to it.
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