Former US President Barack Obama speaks at a Biden-Harris drive-in rally in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020.Former President Barack Obama said there should be government regulations for social media firms since they make "editorial choices, whether they've buried them in algorithms or not," he told The Atlantic in an interview.
Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are protected by an internet law called Section 230 which shields them from being liable for content that people post on their platforms. Republicans and Democrats alike have called for the law to be revised and for protections to be stripped for tech companies, which would majorly impact their businesses.
Tech companies have long argued that they shouldn't be treated as publishers and that Section 230 is what protects free speech on the internet and without it, online communication would change as we know it.Former President Barack Obama said social media companies should be regulated in some capacity as tech firms continue to argue that they shouldn't be treated as publishers.
"The First Amendment doesn't require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there," Obama told The Atlantic. "At the end of the day, we're going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this, because it's going to get worse."
Nigerian government shouldn’t read this!
Through these platforms, Barack destroyed Arab countries. By social media Barack start his dirty game.
Lmao it was fine until Politicians began encouraging their bases to use it as a campaign tool. Perhaps, they should create a space of their own, so the millions of “I garner my opinions from TV and Talking Heads” can leave these platforms allowing them to return to being “social”
Obama never looked at anything without suggesting government regulation would make it better.
So obummer is for Censorship
Freedom is never so in danger as when marxist globalist Obama opens his mouth.
LOL. Well done twitter !
Can’t agree more .. social media ismore of BS these days and create unnecessarily protests and mess up
facts joe biden’s transition team includes the very same people who Developed dominion voting systems