[foolinaround]

Discrimination as alleged by conservatives but pooh-poohed as others as merely delusional is now clearly proved.

How can tech self-regulate itself, or should there be external agencies who would watch the growing power of tech companies? and who would watch them?

Decentralization never seems to take off, so we seem to be left with these existing players like twitter, meta, google ...who are de-facto monopolies....

[afavour]

To me the evidence seems to point to the opposite, like the screenshot of LibsOfTikTok: that account was being shielded from moderation action by a warning note saying not to act without speaking to a superior first. Sounds like the account was at benefit, not detriment.

[MisterMower]

You think that was to protect them? I figured it was because they didn’t want any heavy handed actions to be “misinterpreted” as them putting their finger on the scale. Those actions required more political finesse.

They specifically said in their communications that LibsOfTikTok hadn’t violated any rules directly. Why the suspensions then?

[smoldesu]

> How can tech self-regulate itself

Would it be a stretch to suggest 'the government'?

[someNameIG]

Outside of removing things like CSAM wouldn't it be illegal for the government to tell social media how it must moderate?

I'm from the US though so not an expert or it's laws.

[srj]

DMCA and court orders in the US. Many more in other countries.

[someNameIG]

True. Still nothing about banning or shadow banning though, or even needing to tell users they do so.

[stale2002]

Telephone companies are forced by the government to carry certain speech.

Similar laws could be expanded to other major communication platforms.

[JetAlone]

Right, so now that this thing has been proved we're moving on to the "They did and it's a good thing" phase.