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54 - The Return of Jack Balkin: Social Media Regulation & Responsibility
Politics: Meet Me in the Middle
English - February 22, 2021 17:12 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPolitics News Government politician ed larson conservative politics donald trump president democrat republican liberal political Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What is the responsibility of social media outlets like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter in a healthy society? In a time where anyone - including radicals and even politicians - can use 'shock jock' outrageous methods to influence and mobilize huge audiences, to promote violence, and ruin people's lives, how can we get a handle on it? Renown Yale Law Professor and author, Jack Balkin, returns for a discussion with hosts Bill Curtis and member of the Supreme Court Bar, Jane Albrecht, about the Constitution, social media responsibility, advertising dollars, and how Facebook is damaging our world: politically and socially.
Episode Timestamps:
2:12 Why does Facebook get a free pass but, broadcast TV is regulated by the government. The history of The Telecom Act.
3:23 Did the government promote the internet?
3:55 The idea of network effects
4:23 We are the content producers and the lack of editing
5:03 Rules and regulations of the FCC / Broadcast VS Internet
5:47 Sec 230 Communication Decency Act
7:03 The Digital megaphone and how internet helps promote radicalization
7:32 Digital Terrorism and organization
8:23 Twitter, and Google: Surveillance Companies
8:37 These free companies online monetize their data and experiments on users -
11:10 The two faces of Facebook and the culture of working for them. Social media Culture in general and their business model / The Power of Facebook
2:03 Will the US go the way of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) (FB AD) -
14:13 Regulating business for social responsibility
15:44 How to regulate private business to be socially responsible
15:51 Why give people a platform if BAD ACTORS will also have a platform.
21:13 How to change the policy / The Balkin Plan
23:50 Limiting monizitation
26:45 Free Speech and wrapping up the topic
28:30 The 800 Pound Gorilla known as Trump
31:14 If the USA ran its own Social Media Company
33:29 Final question: All social media uses should be qualified as real people
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