L. No. Social media companies seem to be dependent on ordinary commercial transactions, the regulation of which is presumed constitutional.11 But the exchange underlying social media is not an ordinary commercial transaction. Federal law seems needlessly incoherent. 113. The tech companies involved in speech are large and successful. Zuckerberg argues that the accounts are being removed not because of the content of their speech but because they violate Facebook’s Community Standards, which require that an account have an authentic user. The relevant linguistic community might be working toward a clear definition. Diplomacy requires people employed by foreign powers to speak with policy­makers on behalf of their governments. This prevents someone in Russia, for example, from buying political ads in the United States, and it adds another obstacle for people trying to hide their identity or location using fake accounts. In the meanwhile, here are some more food items that federal and state governments have either banned or restricted due to health concerns, to preserve an animal species, or in response to inhumane preparation methods. 3d 564 (E.D. Despite this protection, it might still be considered valid for the government to manage speech on social media if such regulations were narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest; in other words, the regulation would pass muster under the “strict scrutiny” test the courts apply to restrictions on fundamental rights.113 Here I examine two potential compelling government interests rooted in widely held public values: preventing the harms caused by “fake news” and “hate speech.”114. But that conclusion is somewhat misleading. Sunstein, #Republic, pp. Of course, speech about issues by a foreign national “volunteer” would not be indictable. European Union (website), Publications Office of the EU, A Multidimensional Approach to Disinformation: Report of the Independent High Level Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation, March 30, 2018. He argues that the law would prevent naïve individuals from being drawn into supporting terrorism and thereby preclude deadly attacks. He argues that the history of suppressing speech during wartime has often later been judged to be “deeply misguided, counterproductive, and often shameful.” Post suggests that ambiguous terms such as “glorify,” “support,” and “encourage” may be interpreted to suppress legitimate dissenting speech.84 According to Posner, the work of noted First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone has established that war and speech suppression go together, but Posner does not mention that Stone believes the government’s actions were almost always unnecessary. The government should restrict gun ownership because over the past years people who own guns, especially in the neighborhoods, colleges and high schools break rules and commit crimes. That’s what the Supreme Court must decide. Unpasteurized (Raw) Milk Raw milk was a staple in American households until the implementation of pasteurization to make milk safer. Only about 8 percent of their sample were in an echo chamber. 132. Privatising state owned industries can lead to substantial efficiency savings. Weinstein gives examples of such settings: government workplace, state school classroom, and the courtroom. All these services are frequently used by terrorists, though they cannot be seen as uniquely instrumental in the realization of terrorist plots. Instead the government forcibly takes our money through taxes to make sure that the poor have food, housing, money, etc. 27.Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551 (1972). Regulations of social media companies might either indirectly restrict individual speech or directly limit a right to curate an internet platform. If the government may not suppress false speech or speech that causes a public harm, then whether the speech is intended to cause a public harm does not matter. Let’s start with Catholic social teaching in relation to education and then move on to some economic … Continue reading "Should the government control the curriculum?" There is little evidence that the Russian efforts had much effect on the American voters in 2016. It is generally assumed that while the court has not formally overruled the precedent, it would not validate a group libel law today. But the difference does not merit protecting a reader’s right to see the former and not the latter. Indeed, the cost of speech and association has fallen so fast that we might expect that more people will be more involved in more like‐​minded groups than ever. Evans and Schmalensee remark: “This process has happened repeatedly. 53. Daniel Funke, “A Guide to Anti‐​misinformation Actions around the World,” Poynter Institute, Poyn​ter​.org. We should thus keep in mind that the case for public as opposed to private regulation of fake news online is weak. We began with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s concern about legitimate governance of speech on the internet. Such costs would also indicate the chosen means were poorly tailored to the ends sought by the government; vagueness would suggest the government regulation of speech could not pass a strict scrutiny test. Those convicted of incitement may be jailed for up to five years.148 The United Kingdom also criminalizes the expression of racial hatred.149 In two recent cases, a hate speech conviction led to incarceration.150, The United States has debated regulating hate speech for nearly a century.151 Legal scholar James Weinstein summarizes the outcome of this debate: “The United States is an outlier in the strong protection afforded some of the most noxious forms of extreme speech imaginable.”152 The Supreme Court precludes government from regulating speech because of the message of content‐​based regulation it conveys. This may contribute to news market failure when it becomes difficult for consumers to distinguish between good quality news and disinformation or fake news.129. 115. This article is based on a presentation by Prof Booth at the Benedictus Forum, June 2016. The assumption is paternalistic and contravenes many of the justifications for freedom of speech found in Supreme Court decisions about freedom of speech. Some part of the protection for social media from government action derives from the protections accorded individual speech.12, Social media may enjoy protections from government independent of their users’ right to free speech. The FCC’s Fairness Doctrine required a broad­caster to offer equal time to respond to a position taken on air. This article is based on a presentation by Prof Booth at the Benedictus Forum, June 2016. Hate speech may be defined as “offensive words, about or directed toward historically victimized groups.”144 That definition seems clear enough. Indeed, as we saw, the government may not manage their speech (unless in theory they are broadcast media). In social networking, Friendster lost to MySpace, which lost to Facebook, and, while Facebook seems entrenched, there are many other social networks nipping at its heels.” David S. Evans, Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms (Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016), Kindle edition. Public officials, including members of Congress and the executive branch, often meet and hear the arguments of foreign agents. FARA required agents of foreign powers to register with the federal government; in short, people who are paid by a foreign government must disclose that relationship. In September, the Weekly Standard, the sole conservative organization admitted to Facebook’s fact‐​checking program, deemed a ThinkProgress article, or at least its headline, false, limiting its distribution. On the one hand, we may wish that people were more and better informed about politics; on the other hand, we may doubt the wisdom of forcing people to engage in public matters. See the discussion of Russian “meddling” in the 2016 U.S. election. David Post, another American legal scholar, has noted some problems with Posner’s proposal. Hazlett, The Political Spectrum, pp. They are granted access to social media in exchange for data about themselves. 8.4 (2012): 886–88. Bump Stock Ban: In 2017, a gunman in Las Vegas was able to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history in part because he modified his … Samuel Walker, Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), p. 1. The tech companies, which rank among America’s most innovative and valuable firms, would then be drawn into the swamp of a polarized and polarizing politics. Some Americans may believe free speech should trump private property in forums like shopping malls. 276–7. Registered Dietetic Technician, Founder of The Food Cop. Only six states beyond California adopted limited protections for speech on private property.31. The public effort appeared to fail, but Thomas Hazlett has shown that privately network officials were quite compliant with the wishes of the administration.48. Reporting by the New York Times suggests that Russian efforts may have persuaded a few people to show up at a small anti‐​Muslim rally in Texas.105 Speculation about other effects abounds. First, it should establish that government action is needed to secure some widely held value; private activity is assumed, in theory or fact, to be inadequate to achieving that end. In addition, drug development is expensive. This distinction may belie an assumption that using money to support speech would enable a foreign power to coordinate direct influence over voters and thereby affect the outcome of an election. 145. Humans only need to ingest a few milligrams of neurotoxin for a fatal reaction to occur. 72. So there is a tension here that reflects badly yet well on the United States. But the real problem seems more prosaic and political: If diverse groups are seeing and hearing quite different points of view or focusing on quite different topics, mutual understanding might be difficult and it might be increasingly hard for people to solve problems that society faces together.57. Foie Gras Foie Gras, which means "fatty liver," is banned in many states, as state governments believe the process of creating foie gras is inhumane. Sept. 24, 2018); Cohen v. Facebook Inc., 2017 WL 2192621 (E.D.N.Y. Casey Newton, “A Partisan War over Fact‐​Checking Is Putting Pressure on Facebook,” The Verge (website), September 12, 2018. In the second part, we show that arguments for new public efforts fail to do that. News consumers might consume less news to avoid false or misleading information.130 The outcome might be an ill‐​informed electorate less willing to grant legitimacy to the government. AOL, MSN Messenger, Friendster, MySpace, and Orkut all rose to great heights and then rapidly declined, while Facebook, Snap, WhatsApp, Line, and others quickly rose.” In general, they find that “systematic research on online platforms … shows considerable churn in leadership for online platforms over periods shorter than a decade.”38. v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980). But network effects can be just as powerful in driving people off a platform. To use the spectrum for television broadcasting required a license from the FCC. 5 (2018): 729–45. They say what they think the government should do about the provision of healthcare, about education, about housing and so on and on. Facebook says: It’s important to note that whether or not a Facebook post is accurate is not itself a reason to block it. Not surprisingly, when the government proposes nationwide laws, the states-versus-federal problem arises and a fight begins. This effort to suppress speech was deemed a success by the administration and continued in the Johnson years.47, Richard Nixon’s administration sought to use broadcast regulation against the television networks. The monopoly argument is not limited to one part of the political spectrum. See David R. Johnson and David G. Post, “Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace,” Stanford Law Review 48, no. A foreign national discussing the issues debated during an election does not pose the same threat. 38. 18. State sanctions require both harm to reputation and falsity; the exception is not for false speech per se.124 Public figures must also show “actual malice” by defendants to recover compensation.125 Falsity alone is not enough to allow punishment for speech. 30.Pruneyard Shopping Ctr. Instead, they form bubbles that filter out opposing views and echo chambers that merely repeat the views already held by the individuals in them. Sunstein, #Republic, p. 226. “I certainly do not suggest or believe that government should require anything of this kind (i.e., mandatory linking to opposing views). But the logic of this position does not entail its empirical accuracy. The dissemination of ideas can accomplish nothing if otherwise willing addressees are not free to receive and consider them. Accordingly, hate speech on social media lies beyond government power.158. Foreign governments, acting on behalf of their citizens, need not represent only the interests of foreigners. Google has a general policy against “incitement to hatred” of a list of groups.164 YouTube, which is owned by Google, does not permit hate speech directed toward seven groups.165 This policy led to videos by Alex Jones being removed.166 Twitter also has a similar policy against hate speech.167. Region: USA. 148. 164. “Prohibited Content,” AdSense Help, Google Support; “Hate Speech | Inappropriate Content | Restricted Content,” Developer Policy Center, Google Play. Fake news has no fixed meaning, and regulations would be unconstitutionally vague. Suppose the federal government manages to force prices down to a level just necessary to keep drugs available, but not high enough to … The FEC notes that a federal district court has said that the “foreign national ban ‘does not restrain foreign nationals from speaking out about issues or spending money to advocate their views about issues. One way to deal with this conflict between “our” aspirations and the revealed preferences of individuals has been to insist that revealed preferences actually contravene the true interests of individuals, whereas our aspirations represent a truth to be honored by government action. Amos A. Jordan et al., American National Security (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. They are active online with significant consequences for their leaders if not for British elections. 33. The online activities of social media companies also have considerable protection from government regulation. The California legislature did pass a bill setting up an advisory commission “to monitor information posted and spread on social media.” The governor vetoed the bill. 23.Perry Education Association v. Perry Local Educators’ Association, 460 U.S. 37 (1983). However, “the impact of all these changes on the welfare of consumers, producers and society as a whole is not so clear. 67. 101. Policymakers are assumed to be capable of sorting out arguments and interests. A Twitter account is not an unalloyed boon to terrorists. Laws that ban raw milk are intended to protect consumers from harmful bacteria; however, supporters of raw milk claim that the current standards in farm sanitation make raw milk safe to drink. Commercial speech plays a small part in these policy matters. The First Amendment offers strong protections against such restrictions. Owen Fiss, The Irony of Free Speech (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996). If Facebook or other platforms remove content to avoid government regulation, is such suppression state action or a hybrid of private choice determined by public threats and offers? At the same time, the section did not protect individuals from public accountability for violating the limited exceptions to freedom of speech, and it did not reduce government authority over those harms. Thus, social media content moderation might differ from editorial discretion in publishing and merit less constitutional protection. No doubt some Russian accounts will escape the ban on fake accounts. Facebook’s efforts do not suppress speech on the basis of its content. 81.Brandenburg v. Ohio, summarized in Ruane, “The Advocacy of Terrorism on the Internet,” p. 5. Facebook does so extensively. Jan. 31, 2018). Should future national elections turn out badly, the United States might be tempted to take a more European attitude and approach to online speech. J. Denied a forum, the extremists retreated from the most widely used part of the internet to the dark web. Such regulation reinforced the market dominance of large firms and threatened freedom of speech. See “Overview,” p. 83. Monica Bickert, head of global policy management at Facebook, writes: “First, [social media] generally do not create or choose the content shared on their platform; instead, they provide the virtual space for others to speak.” Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., “Defining the Boundaries of Free Speech on Social Media,” The Free Speech Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), p. 254. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that private companies in general are not bound by the First Amendment. 97. The standard of actual malice is quite demanding on those seeking relief. 3 (July–September 2014): 354–61. They provide the means for large numbers of people to produce and consume information. The regulation is necessarily ex post. The amount of government control is a slippery slope that perhaps should not be accessed by any government large or small when it comes to food consumption. Our concern here is whether the government should increase its power over internet speech to achieve national security. Finally, social media are privately owned forums for speech. Individuals create a user profile that social media services in turn use to connect individuals to others.6 Social media services often use data gleaned from users to target advertising to them.7. This more liberal approach to foreign speech may be seen in FARA’s statement of purpose: To protect the national defense, internal security, and foreign relations of the United States by requiring public disclosure by persons engaging in propaganda activities and other activities for or on behalf of foreign governments, foreign political parties, and other foreign principals so that the Government and the people of the United States may be informed of the identity of such persons and may appraise their statements and actions in the light of their associations and activities.99, The law also requires “that informational materials (formerly propaganda) be labeled with a conspicuous statement that the information is disseminated by the agents on behalf of the foreign principal.” The Department of Justice says disclosure is required of people “attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws.”100, Policy and law are likely the most important contexts for the speech of foreign agents. According to South Sina News (2007), a Hong Kong netizen, Mr. Individuals use social media for speech. Such distinctions must pass the strict scrutiny test discussed earlier. Cass Sunstein, perhaps the most important contemporary critic of speech and association on the internet, argues that “we should evaluate communications technologies and social media by asking how they affect us as citizens, not only by asking how they affect us as consumers.” A central question is whether emerging social practices, including consumption patterns, are “promoting or compromising our own highest aspirations.”50 The government might help them achieve “our” (but not necessarily “their”) highest aspirations.51, Our highest aspirations are said to include meeting the demands of citizenship in a deliberative democracy. And all these ads are put into a public archive which anyone can search to see how much was spent on an individual ad and the audience it reached. 79. Even if we put less weight on conclusions from Europe, such results bear more than modest consideration. This very smelly cheese is a runny white cheese that is made by injecting Pecorino Sardo cheese with live cheese-eating larvae that measure about one-half inch long. So the broad definition is a response to what? Were this not true, the combination of vagueness and politics in a polarized age would mean virtually anything “the other side” said would be regulated as fake news. They limit freedom of speech to advance other values such as equal dignity. 813, June 19, 2017. 45. The arguments advanced for a greater scope of government power do not stand up. Aug. 15, 2018); Cain v. Twitter Inc., 2018 WL 4657275 (N.D. Cal. The internet facilitated the exchange of views about everything, including politics. 17–21. In other cases, the interests of governments and peoples diverge, and the speech of foreign agents may run counter to the interests of the American people. “(1) News that is made up or ‘invented’ to make money or discredit others; (2) news that has a basis in fact, but is ‘spun’ to suit a particular agenda; and (3) news that people don’t feel comfortable about or don’t agree with” (Reuters Institute, “Digital News Report 2017”). To do so, the Minneapolis regulation would have needed to be narrowly drawn to achieve a compelling government interest. 93.Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301 (1965). On the listeners’ side, the public forum creates not exactly a right but rather an opportunity, if perhaps an unwelcome one: shared exposure to diverse speakers with diverse views and complaints.” Sunstein, #Republic, p. 38. Given the plaintiffs’ failure to establish ISIS’s Twitter use as the proximate cause of their harms, the Ninth Circuit rejected Fields’ appeal. The average taxpayer burden of government spending in 2018 came to around $29,357. In older decisions, the Supreme Court said private forums had to respect public limits regulating freedom of speech. Then, if a firm moved fast and got some customers, those customers would attract more customers, which would attract even more. 39. “There are some important industries where ‘winner takes most’ may apply. 129. Social welfare: It should never be the job of the government to care for the poor. 150. Yet American law and culture strongly circumscribe government power to regulate speech on the internet and elsewhere. Moreover, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 prevents social media platforms from being liable for the torts of their users.126 Defamation will provide a limited public response to fake news.127 It is not broad enough to underpin a substantial government effort to regulate false speech on social media. Misinformation may be speech that is intentionally false. Such forums are protected, of course, from government censorship. Each element involves speech: users generate and consume information, and social media services create the forum in which speech happens. The federal government claimed control of the broadcasting spectrum in the 1920s. 67% … It will give ladies opportunity to control their life, they will be able to make the decision when to have kids, or even have them at all. Indeed, people exposed themselves more over time to contrary views, which “was related to a modest … spiral of depolarization.” In contrast, the researchers found no evidence of a filter bubble where exposure to news affirming prior attitudes led to greater polarization.65. 110. “What Super Pacs, Non‐​profits, and Other Groups Spending Outside Money Must Disclose about the Source and Use of Their Funds,” OpenSecrets. Apart from that, the term fake news appears to comprise three elements: intentionality, falsity, and a public harm. The court decided that the state’s rights trumped any claims to protection for private property or the owner’s freedom of speech.30 This extension of free speech rights did not appeal much to other states. 89. “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations,” Facebook Community Standards. This goes against the entire idea of free speech. Users of such sites do more than just passively consume information, in other words: they can also create it, comment on it, share it, discuss it, and even modify it. Pablo Barberá, “How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization. But they rarely give a general answer. 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Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. A foreign national spending money on speech that advocates the election or defeat of a candidate apparently threatens the integrity of elections. This is Fox News vs. For example, Eric Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, has proposed a law that would make it a crime to visit “websites that glorify, express support for, or provide encouragement for ISIS or support recruitment by ISIS; to distribute links to those websites or videos, images, or text taken from those websites; or to encourage people to access such websites by supplying them with links or instructions.”83 (Presumably the same would apply to other terrorist groups.) However, the Supreme Court’s leading decision on incitement to violence also states that “the mere abstract teaching … of the moral propriety or even moral necessity for a resort to force and violence is not the same as preparing a group for violent action.” Such speech cannot be punished by the government in a manner consistent with the First Amendment.82 Terrorist speech that seeks to persuade rather than direct would likely escape censorship. 2011), affirmed, 132 Supreme Court 1087 (2012). Instead, it provides a space for shooters to share videos without having to worry about the whims of gun‐​shy advertisers. The operators of gun review channels found their videos repeatedly demonetized, and some were banned for running afoul of opaque rulesets. All of these require government revenues. Here’s how lawmakers can make them effective and protective of sensitive data. 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