Should Social Media Giant's Keep Their Immunity To US Libel Laws?

[Mktavish]

 

But not all social media platforms are created equal..... At least, as far as 'protections' go. Craigslist.org is a flavor of 'social media', yet the government decided they needed to be held responsible for what folks were offering on their site. (to wit, sex, either for free, or for money.) It was decided that they were going to become responsible for other people offering up illegal activities on their site..... The consequence was, that entire section went away. There was no reasonable way for craigslist to police that section, so, they simply nuked it. A tiny, tiny, minuscule percentage of users tanked the section for EVERYONE.

Well, Craigslist is an unusual case and not really what would generally be classified colloquially under the heading "Social Media", as it's ostensibly a public "classifieds" site primarily for the selling and buying of goods and/or services. So in their case they would (and should) be somewhat responsible for ensuring that *illegal activities weren't being exchanged, such as certain sexual acts, child pornography or explicit murder/bodily harm for hire.

 

However they certainly should be given the same freedoms and protections from prosecution/persecution as any other "Social Media" site. The same would be true for a company that has a Facebook Page which promotes their products/services, Provided their products/services aren't *illegal.

 

(* depending of course on the laws and statutes in whatever jurisdiction the website and/or it's "users" were in)

 

 

How bout you give us a personal experience of censorship ? that would help your position ; )