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Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."

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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 187 points 1 year ago

Now let's get back to net neutrality and rules on social media.

[-] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago
[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 36 points 1 year ago

We'll probably see them lobbying to give ISPs additional taxpayer funds to 'expand' broadband access while redefining broadband to be anything above 150Kbps.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] anon232@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago

Rules for social media lol. What do you expect the government to do? How would they even enforce these rules? Social media sites would simply host in other countries outside of the USA to bypass regulations.

Instead of trying to regulate websites, how about we create better privacy protections for our citizens, eh?

[-] pastaq@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Privacy protection sounds a lot like rules for social media to me...

[-] TheBeege@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think you put much thought into this, friend. Many social media companies are incorporated in the US to make use of US ad revenue sources. Where the servers are hosted doesn't matter. The legal corporate entity is the important bit.

And as mentioned in the other comment, privacy protections would operate the same way, seeing as they are literally rules for social media, among other sites.

But yes, privacy protections would be great. Let's do that

[-] anon232@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Even if that's true I wouldn't put it past the companies to find ways to circumvent regulations, and I think trying to advocate for regulating them sets a precedent against the free and open internet that websites are under government control, which shouldn't be the case. Imagine if government started requiring government ID's to access all websites (including Lemmy, which is a social network).

[-] Spost@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

It's true that companies will probably try to find ways to circumvent any rules placed on them, but I don't think that's a good reason to not make the legislation.

If regulating social media is an infringement on the free and open internet, does that same logic apply to everything else we regulate? Government mandated ID checking would certainly be bad, but is it a terrible infringement on the internet to say, for instance, "hey, you can't advertise to children in these ways"?

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

They have zero interests in providing privacy protections. KOSA is a prime example, bi partisan internet censorship

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