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Episode 45: Social Media Regulation and Journalism
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230.
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.
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- FCC chairman says he'll seek to regulate social media under Trump's executive order - CNN — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will draft regulations intended for social media companies following a petition earlier this year by the Trump administration, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
In a tweet, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai indicated he will move forward with a rulemaking to "clarify" Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which currently acts as a legal shield for tech companies' handling of user generated content.
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher
or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material — Reference from Cornell Law. Opinion | Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press - The New York Times — Ad revenue that used to support journalism is now captured by Google and Facebook, and some of that money supports and spreads fake news. BIG by Matt Stoller Tim Hwang - Subprime Attention Crisis — Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher based in New York.
He is the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the bubble of online advertising. He is currently a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University.Defending the Caveman | A Broadway Comedy We Can All Relate To IU Inc. » Archive » IU Media School professor’s paper was influential in FCC net neutrality decision
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Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230.
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.
Support Reality 2.0
Links:
- FCC chairman says he'll seek to regulate social media under Trump's executive order - CNN — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will draft regulations intended for social media companies following a petition earlier this year by the Trump administration, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
In a tweet, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai indicated he will move forward with a rulemaking to "clarify" Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which currently acts as a legal shield for tech companies' handling of user generated content.
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher
or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material — Reference from Cornell Law. Opinion | Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press - The New York Times — Ad revenue that used to support journalism is now captured by Google and Facebook, and some of that money supports and spreads fake news. BIG by Matt Stoller Tim Hwang - Subprime Attention Crisis — Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher based in New York.
He is the author of Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the bubble of online advertising. He is currently a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University.Defending the Caveman | A Broadway Comedy We Can All Relate To IU Inc. » Archive » IU Media School professor’s paper was influential in FCC net neutrality decision