How the Supreme Court could change the internet as we know it

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What if YouTube stopped making recommendations?
What if a state official in Texas or Florida required Instagram to not remove vaccine misinformation that’s against the app’s rules?
Or what if TikTok remade its “For You” tab so that content moderators needed to OK videos before letting them appear?
The Supreme Court this week opened the door to radically different ways of thinking about social media and the internet. The court is poised to hear as many as three cases this term about the legal protections that social media companies have used to become industry behemoths, and about the freewheeling latitude the companies now have over online speech, entertainment and information.
Its rulings could be the start of a new reality on the internet, one where platforms are much more cautious about the content they decide to push out to billions of people each day. Alternatively, the court could also create a situation in which tech companies have little power to moderate what users post, rolling back years of efforts to limit the reach of misinformation, abuse and hate speech.

The result could make parts of the internet unrecognizable, as certain voices get louder or quieter and information spreads in different ways.
“The key to the future of the internet is being able to strike that balance between preserving that participatory nature and increasing access to good information,” said Robyn Caplan, a senior researcher at Data & Society, a nonprofit organization that studies the internet.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

If I were an American I would be very afraid what their Supreme Court is going to pull off next.

 

[cruelsister]

“The key to the future of the internet is being able to strike that balance between preserving that participatory nature and increasing access to good information,”

The real goal is to create a Dystopia controlled by The Powers That Be using "1984" as a playbook. For me this is double plus ungood.

 

[Chuck57]

More people are waking up to the insanity, not just to reference the OP but all of it. At some point, We the People are going to have to make a hard decision about Washington and the parasites in power and, I hope, read Thomas Jefferson's Tree of Liberty letter. He advises we "take arms, pardon and pacity them." It's long overdue.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Don't think guns is the "answer" to anything.

 

[cruelsister]

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

 

[Chuck57]

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Easy question, I live in one, Canada, 155 years old, no civil wars yet, only banana republics have civil wars now and think an AK solves everything. So I am out of this thread before it goes off the rails even more.

 

[ForgottenSeer 95367]

No one thought social media would wield such incredible influence over society. Over the world. From social interactions to politics to economic affairs. Now that truly insidious Genie is out of the bottle, there is no getting it back in. There has been no other force that promotes disagreement and disunity like social media. Social media was tailor-made for radicals, revolutionaries, and anyone anti-establishment.

If there is a civil war in America, then social media will be 90% of the cause. If there is a nuclear war, same thing - social media will have a lot to do with it.