Döpfner's and von der Leyen's concern about shutting down President Trump's accounts are fair, but until governments have clear laws, tech companies have to act based on their own rules.
This week, the media proprietor Mathias Döpfner and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, exchanged open letters about many of these issues. They discussed two core assertions: first, that it is high time that"big tech" should be regulated; and that there should be sweeping prohibitions on the use of data.
Private companies should, indeed, not be making so many big decisions about what content is acceptable on their own. Of course it would be better if these were made according to democratically accountable frameworks. Facebook has argued for some time for new rules in a range of areas, including privacy, election integrity, harmful content and data portability.
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