{"id":19070,"date":"2024-12-30T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:32:48","slug":"social-media-companies-face-global-tug-of-war-over-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19070","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Companies Face Global Tug-of-War Over Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s picks for the F.C.C. and F.T.C. have vowed to remove censorship online. That conflicts with European regulators who are pushing for stricter moderation.<\/p>\n

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President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies have vowed to squash an online \u201ccensorship cartel\u201d of social media firms that they say targets conservatives.<\/p>\n

Already, the president-elect\u2019s newly chosen regulators at the Federal Communications Commission<\/a> and the Federal Trade Commission<\/a> have outlined plans to stop social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube from removing content the companies deem offensive \u2014 and punish advertisers that leave less restrictive platforms like X in protest of the lack of moderation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe censorship and advertising boycott cartel must end now!\u201d Elon Musk, the owner of X, whom Mr. Trump has appointed to cut the federal budget<\/a>, posted on his site last month.<\/p>\n

In Europe, social media companies face the opposite problem. There, regulators accuse the platforms of being too lax about the information they host, including allowing posts that stoked political violence in Britain and spread hate in Germany and France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House is expected to widen the speech divide that has long existed between the United States and Europe, setting up parallel regulatory systems that tech policy experts say could influence elections, public health and public discourse. That\u2019s putting social media companies in the middle of a global tug of war over how to police content on their sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you are seeing is conflicting laws emerging from the world\u2019s democracies, and consumers in the end suffer,\u201d said Kate Klonick, an associate professor of property and internet law at St. John\u2019s University School of Law. The result could be a fractured internet experience where people see different content based on the laws where they live, she said.<\/p>\n

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President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s picks for the F.C.C. and F.T.C. have vowed to remove censorship online. That conflicts with European regulators who are pushing for stricter moderation.President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies have vowed to squash an online \u201ccensorship cartel\u201d of social media firms that they say targets conservatives.Already, the president-elect\u2019s newly chosen regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have outlined plans to stop social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube from removing content the companies deem offensive \u2014 and punish advertisers that leave less restrictive platforms like X in protest of the lack of moderation.\u201cThe censorship and advertising boycott cartel must end now!\u201d Elon Musk, the owner of X, whom Mr. Trump has appointed to cut the federal budget, posted on his site last month.In Europe, social media companies face the opposite problem. There, regulators accuse the platforms of being too lax about the information they host, including allowing posts that stoked political violence in Britain and spread hate in Germany and France.Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House is expected to widen the speech divide that has long existed between the United States and Europe, setting up parallel regulatory systems that tech policy experts say could influence elections, public health and public discourse. That\u2019s putting social media companies in the middle of a global tug of war over how to police content on their sites.\u201cWhat you are seeing is conflicting laws emerging from the world\u2019s democracies, and consumers in the end suffer,\u201d said Kate Klonick, an associate professor of property and internet law at St. John\u2019s University School of Law. The result could be a fractured internet experience where people see different content based on the laws where they live, she said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19072,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}