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by nolvorite 1855 days ago
While I disagree with this law's implementation, I agree with what it does in theory.

Social media companies that are used en masse should have an independent body when it comes to its content moderation.

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> should have an independent body when it comes to its content moderation

That's a reasonable opinion. In the US, it's unconstitutional for that "independent body" to be the government. On top of that, it violates Section 230, so there are two legal barriers.

I personally feel that corporations should not be able to spend millions on lobbying, but enforcing that is also unconstitutional.

Sometimes the consequences of freedom of speech are great, sometimes they're awful. I'm still thankful that we have them and (so far) the courts have upheld them, as they surely will in this case.

Facebook has a pseudo-independent body for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversight_Board_(Facebook)