Gunny
06-17-2020, 05:04 PM
Take it with a grain of salt. It's a poll. I think internet companies as well as the MSM should be held liable for posting false information as fact. Lots of grey area there, but from what I've seen there's a lot of cut and dried BS out there as well. Especially from the MSM.
If the President wants to run for reelection in the internet, so be it. Let him. There should be no special rules regarding his posts as opposed to mine. Facebook and twitter smack of partisan politics rather than administrators. They should be held liable for that.
June 17, 2020
By Elizabeth Culliford
(Reuters) – Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.
The debate over online content moderation, already in the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic and run-up to the U.S. election, has intensified in recent weeks as Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> and Facebook Inc <FB.O> diverged on how to handle inflammatory posts by President Donald Trump.
Here are some key poll findings:
WHAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED?
The new poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans favor letting people express their views on social media, including views that are offensive.
However, 85% of respondents favored removing intentionally false or misleading health information and 81% supported removing intentionally misleading claims about elections or other political issues.
Respondents were more critical of companies doing too little than too much in policing harmful content. Seventy-one percent of Democrats and 54% of independents thought companies were not tough enough, whereas Republicans were more divided.
WHO SHOULD MAKE THE RULES?
Eight in 10 respondents said they do not trust Big Tech to make the right decisions on content. Most preferred companies making these rules over the government, though a slim majority of Democrats favored the government setting content limits or guidance.
Respondents tended to prefer the idea of having independent content oversight boards to govern policies, with 81% saying such boards were a good idea. Facebook is in the process of setting up an oversight board, which will hear a small number of content cases and can make policy recommendations.
KEEP KEY INTERNET LAW?
Almost two-thirds of respondents said they supported in principle the law that shields major internet companies from liability for users’ content, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which Trump and many lawmakers are pushing to pare back.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford in Birmingham, England; Editing by Greg Mitchell and Matthew Lewis)
https://www.oann.com/social-media-companies-distrusted-by-most-americans-on-content-decisions-poll/
If the President wants to run for reelection in the internet, so be it. Let him. There should be no special rules regarding his posts as opposed to mine. Facebook and twitter smack of partisan politics rather than administrators. They should be held liable for that.
June 17, 2020
By Elizabeth Culliford
(Reuters) – Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.
The debate over online content moderation, already in the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic and run-up to the U.S. election, has intensified in recent weeks as Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> and Facebook Inc <FB.O> diverged on how to handle inflammatory posts by President Donald Trump.
Here are some key poll findings:
WHAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED?
The new poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans favor letting people express their views on social media, including views that are offensive.
However, 85% of respondents favored removing intentionally false or misleading health information and 81% supported removing intentionally misleading claims about elections or other political issues.
Respondents were more critical of companies doing too little than too much in policing harmful content. Seventy-one percent of Democrats and 54% of independents thought companies were not tough enough, whereas Republicans were more divided.
WHO SHOULD MAKE THE RULES?
Eight in 10 respondents said they do not trust Big Tech to make the right decisions on content. Most preferred companies making these rules over the government, though a slim majority of Democrats favored the government setting content limits or guidance.
Respondents tended to prefer the idea of having independent content oversight boards to govern policies, with 81% saying such boards were a good idea. Facebook is in the process of setting up an oversight board, which will hear a small number of content cases and can make policy recommendations.
KEEP KEY INTERNET LAW?
Almost two-thirds of respondents said they supported in principle the law that shields major internet companies from liability for users’ content, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which Trump and many lawmakers are pushing to pare back.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford in Birmingham, England; Editing by Greg Mitchell and Matthew Lewis)
https://www.oann.com/social-media-companies-distrusted-by-most-americans-on-content-decisions-poll/