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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
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Interesting. One of the primary defenses against attempts to hold platform operators liable for the content on their platform is that they operate like common carriers (e.g. telephone companies), in that they don't curate content, or any curation is the byproduct of algorithmic engines (e.g. you see posts that are currently popular).
They have simultaneously argued that they shouldn't be regulated like common carriers because that would be harmful to the public and not appropriate for... reasons, I suppose.
This admission contradicts the first point and drives home the need for net neutrality like regulations for platforms. Not only are they interfering with the free flow of information, contrary to their whole "freedom of speech for all" branding, they are admitting that it is for purely business reasons (as opposed to moderating community standards or hate speech, which they have resisted and labeled censorship).
When Facebook and IG switched to their algorithm instead of showing newest first I made this case and nobody would listen to me.
They’re having their cake and eating it too (and trafficking everyone’s data unregulated). Just like when EU members using a US VPN get violations of the GDPR.
Aside: I went to a site today and had my VPN set to an EU country and when I picked “reject advertising cookies” it said this page isn’t available in areas governed by the GDPR or whatever that law is. They’re censoring themselves from places that don’t let them steal data.
Fwiw, net neutrality is "law" right now. I wonder if affected media companies have a tort that they could sue Twitter under.
I'm sure Twitter is going to delay delay delay but still...
Ninja edit: law is in quotes since this is an FCC ruling (I don't know if that's the right word) and not sure how stable that is with Chevron overturned.
I thought that only applies to ISPs and not to platforms (Twitter, FB, Threads, etc)
Even if Chevron hadn't been overturned, it would have been as stable as it was before: able to be reversed by a Republican head of the FCC, just like it was last time.