{"id":21844,"date":"2020-10-07T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2020-10-07T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T07:50:00","slug":"big-tech-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/10\/07\/big-tech-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech: Between a rock and a hard place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday saw two huge clues for what Big Tech can expect in the years to come. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the US, both the Democrats and the Republicans now have a fixed position on regulating tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They are both totally different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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First off Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the President shared a piece of disinformation on Facebook and Twitter about the relative dangers of Covid, the two companies reacted: Twitter hid his post and Facebook removed it altogether.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump responded by tweeting “Repeal Section 230!!!”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is a key piece of legislation that stops companies like Facebook and Twitter from being liable for the things people post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It essentially gives them “platform” rather than “publisher” status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Impossible task<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Just imagine for a second if all of the posts on Facebook – all of the accusations, all of the libellous content, all of it – was the responsibility of Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It doesn’t work. Without Section 230 companies like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc couldn’t function as they do now. They’d potentially have to moderate your content in real time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even for the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, that is not possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You might think: “Trump says he’ll repeal Section 230, but will he actually?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday saw two huge clues for what Big Tech can expect in the years to come. In the US, both the Democrats and the Republicans now have a fixed position on regulating tech. They are both totally different. First off Trump. After the President shared a piece of disinformation on Facebook and Twitter about the relative dangers of Covid, the two companies reacted: Twitter hid his post and Facebook removed it altogether. Trump responded by tweeting “Repeal Section 230!!!”. This is a key piece of legislation that stops companies like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21846,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/21846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}