In an op-ed, Joe Biden asks Republicans and Democrats to unite “to pass strong bipartisan legislation to hold Big Tech accountable”, saying the risks are clear [wccftech.com]
OP Ed: »
www.wsj.com/articles/uni ··· 73439411He is not wrong with these 3 ideas. He's got a 3 point plan
1. digital privacy (Everyone should be agreeing with this)
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That means clear limits on how companies can collect, use and share highly personal data—your internet history, your personal communications, your location, and your health, genetic and biometric data. It’s not enough for companies to disclose what data they’re collecting. Much of that data shouldn’t be collected in the first place.
2. competition (Everyone should be agreeing with this. We need net neutrality, and price gouging should not be allowed)
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Big Tech companies have elbowed mom-and-pop businesses out from their platforms, disadvantaged them, or charged them outlandish prices, making it harder for them to compete and grow, and thereby stifling innovation
3. online safety
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We need Big Tech companies to take responsibility for the content they spread and the algorithms they use. That’s why I’ve long said we must fundamentally reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects tech companies from legal responsibility for content posted on their sites. We also need far more transparency about the algorithms Big Tech is using to stop them from discriminating, keeping opportunities away from equally qualified women and minorities, or pushing content to children that threatens their mental health and safety.
He is right except for reforming Section 230 as that section already meets his goal.
said by 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1) :
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
This already allows us to hold sites liable for their own content, for actively marketing content, lying that causes damages, and for illegal content. They can still moderate against illegal things, lies, and pick and choose what content gets advertisement money as they are private companies. They only lose the protection if they create the content, market the content, block content in a way that breaks our existing laws, or block content in a way that makes them a publisher or speaker of the information. A good improvement would be enforcing net neutrality on ISPs so they are protected from any liability by being dumb pipes.