If you know what the problem is, why not deal with the source or the platform that enables the problem rather than telling people what the problem is.
What I’m saying is that government should do more to regulate and control social media companies and treat them no differently than newspapers, cable TV companies or news organizations. Social Media companies are by default the news platforms that everyone relies on now … whether anyone would like to admit that doesn’t matter because that is what everyone now uses social media for.
It doesn’t mean regulate and control the internet … it just means control the social media companies that basically have all the keys to democratic information sharing in our society. They have and use the power to control, manipulate, promote, withhold, highlight or hide just about all the information that society needs to understand our world. Social Media now have the power to direct our world … if we don’t do anything about it, we are giving up our democratic systems to private corporations with their own selfish motivations that have nothing to do with the betterment of society.
Canada tried to get social media companies to pay a tax for Canadian news articles and the response from companies was simply to block access for Canadians. Any regulations would likely go the same way.
The EU can force sites to comply with their regulations because they’re a huge market. Unfortunately, Canada isn’t really that big of a market. If Canada decided to punish companies for spreading disinformation, they’d probably just block Canadians from accessing the sites and claim its because the Canadian government are evil dictators against free speech, and everyone would believe them.
If you know what the problem is, why not deal with the source or the platform that enables the problem rather than telling people what the problem is.
What I’m saying is that government should do more to regulate and control social media companies and treat them no differently than newspapers, cable TV companies or news organizations. Social Media companies are by default the news platforms that everyone relies on now … whether anyone would like to admit that doesn’t matter because that is what everyone now uses social media for.
It doesn’t mean regulate and control the internet … it just means control the social media companies that basically have all the keys to democratic information sharing in our society. They have and use the power to control, manipulate, promote, withhold, highlight or hide just about all the information that society needs to understand our world. Social Media now have the power to direct our world … if we don’t do anything about it, we are giving up our democratic systems to private corporations with their own selfish motivations that have nothing to do with the betterment of society.
Canada tried to get social media companies to pay a tax for Canadian news articles and the response from companies was simply to block access for Canadians. Any regulations would likely go the same way.
The EU can force sites to comply with their regulations because they’re a huge market. Unfortunately, Canada isn’t really that big of a market. If Canada decided to punish companies for spreading disinformation, they’d probably just block Canadians from accessing the sites and claim its because the Canadian government are evil dictators against free speech, and everyone would believe them.