{"id":10298,"date":"2020-06-18T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/justice-department-gets-serious-about-rolling-back-big-tech-protections\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:48:00","slug":"justice-department-gets-serious-about-rolling-back-big-tech-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/justice-department-gets-serious-about-rolling-back-big-tech-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"#Justice Department gets serious about rolling back big tech protections"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Justice Department gets serious about rolling back big tech protections<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 17, 2020 |<\/span> 9:48pm <\/p>\n

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\n New government proposals would have US top cop Bill Barr wrangling more closely the content on the platforms of these Silicon Valley boys — from left Facebook<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter boss Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai,. <\/span>
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\n The Department of Justice is taking aim at big tech companies amid growing concerns that Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube are letting illicit content run rampant.<\/p>\n

In a 25-page proposal released on its Web site Wednesday, the DOJ recommended curbing protections that tech platforms have enjoyed since 1996 against content posted on their sites by third parties. These protections \u2014 afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act \u2014 also give tech companies the freedom to remove \u201cobjectionable\u201d content at their discretion \u2014 leading to complaints of double standards.<\/p>\n

The proposal comes amid criticism, including from President Trump, that large social-media companies censor conservative voices while letting other controversial material, including some criminal content, run amok.<\/p>\n

The DOJ, led by Attorney General<\/a> Bill Barr, calls for tech companies to be held liable for hosting content that it knows is against the law. It also seeks to make sites more responsible for \u201cparticularly egregious content,\u201d including child exploitation, terrorism and cyberstalking.<\/p>\n

The agency also seeks to stop tech companies from removing content based on the \u201cotherwise objectionable\u201d criteria of Section 230, saying this promotes arbitrary policing.<\/p>\n

In order to become law, lawmakers would need to propose and app<\/a>rove legislation based on the recommendations.<\/p>\n

The proposal arrives just a day after Google made headlines for taking action against two publications, including right-leaning publication The Federalist, after it found user comments on their sites violated its \u201cdangerous and derogatory\u201d comments policy.<\/p>\n

In addition to warning The Federalist that it could be banned from Google\u2019s ad platform for the unsavory comments, it banned anonymous blogger Web site ZeroHedge from its ad platform for similar reasons.<\/p>\n

While Google is free to sell ads against any content it wants, analysts warn that it\u2019s a slippery slope considering Google\u2019s YouTube enjoys protections from just such unsavory content, thanks to Section 230.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at 230 and you look at what\u2019s happened with ZeroHedge and The Federalist, it\u2019s a very slippery slope,\u201d Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told The Post. \u201cEspecially for companies like Google that on the other side have YouTube, which is one of their crown jewels from an advertising perspective, which scrutinizes content and what can and can\u2019t be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley joined with three other Republicans to introduce a bill that would allow people to sue tech companies if they feel that their speech has been censored.<\/p>\n

The new efforts are unlikely, however, to have any impact on Google Ads\u2019 decision to boot Web sites like ZeroHedge, because it fears advertisers will object to their content, experts say.<\/p>\n

When it comes to things like tech-driven advertising, \u201cSection 230 doesn\u2019t really apply,\u201d Kate Klonick, a professor at St. John\u2019s University School of Law, told The Post. \u201cGoogle doesn\u2019t have to provide ad services to anyone.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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