Looking Beyond New Facebook Ban
December 16, 2019
The social media giant Facebook has started limiting “political speech by nationality,” a law professor says, adding that the ban indiscriminately applies to “enemies and allies alike.” This misconnect stems from the larger problem that “too much of the responsibility to control speech in cyberspace rests in private hands,” a leading sociologist recently argued in Issues, proposing that “A combination of tech companies setting standards and Congress reviewing them seems to be a promising way to move toward a cyberspace that is less dangerous and wild, but not tamed.”