Taoiseach Simon Harris says the era of self regulation by social media companies is over
Taoiseach Simon Harris says the era of self regulation by social media companies is over
He’s prepared to meet Elon Musk and other social media company execs to discuss Irish government plans for financial sanctions and personal liabilities for failing to remove harmful content pic.twitter.com/Jv5xMyU1dm
— Christina Finn (@christinafinn8) August 7, 2024
Taoiseach Simon Harris says the era of self regulation by social media companies is over
He’s prepared to meet Elon Musk and other social media company execs to discuss Irish government plans for financial sanctions and personal liabilities for failing to remove harmful content pic.twitter.com/Jv5xMyU1dm
— Christina Finn (@christinafinn8) August 7, 2024
Posted by noisylettuce
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Why are the Brits at it again?
They need to know how the algorithms work and force them to change it. This is what’s promoting all the extremist stuff. They’d be a tiny minority if they weren’t being intentionally promoted.
Fining a massive company a bit of money now and again or expecting them to be removing tweets from millions of people all day isn’t going to achieve anything.
Harris is gonna get banned off Twitter
This would appear to be in response to some news medias properly reporting that the right wing agitators are at least linked to British unionist and loyalist paramilitaries. Specifically Mossad agent Tommy Robinson.
The government and RTÉ are still taking these larpers at face value and are proposing to change the law based on these known falsehoods.
Fuck yeah, can’t wait to post some vile stuff on twitter and bankrupt that piece of shit
good
There should be a mandatory I.D registration for any social media account. No more hiding behind fake accounts and VPNs
They said this after Leo got caught shifting too
We just got rid of blasphemy laws and now we are bringing them back with a vengeance. And people actually pleased with this. Mad stuff.
Inciting violence is already illegal, and “misinformation and disinformation” is in the eye of the beholder.
maybe some journalists should do some journalism and ask Harris why his government have been saying that exact line for [over three years](https://www.newstalk.com/news/era-of-self-regulation-is-over-for-social-media-companies-in-ireland-catherine-martin-1277444) with no obvious results
This is absolutely ridiculous. This is just another example of why this guy is [*Removed by Government. Vote Fine Gael*]
There’s going to be an almighty shitstorm of “respect our freedom of speech!” (…our right to yell insults and threats at immigrants, and curiously almost never white immigrants) comments.
Twitter is an absolute shitshow… unlike Reddit – where you can choose which topics you’re interested in and/or which you want to avoid – there you’re at the mercy of an algorithm which can feed you whatever they want to push. Feel-good echo-chamber messages, or “look what the other side is doing!” ragebait.
I’ve never seen so such concerted hatred and racism on other major platforms.
Did one of the mods recently ban him from here?
Now regulate the construction industry and the auctioneers
They were perfectly happy with it when they had ‘friends’ in positions of power in twitter. When Musk cleared it out, they developed a problem with it.
They do not want anyone to challenge the narrative.
Paying RTÉ off was to keep them on script. They can’t keep X on script and that is the issue now!
This is great. Long overdue.
I’ve thought this for years, make the execs liable and the Internet will be cleared up overnight.
Now I don’t know who to believe!
Finally! With all these announcements, there must be an election on the horizon. 😆
Interesting reaction on here. Very interesting.
Bots or something more sinister?