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The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media (www.eff.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The Surgeon General’s suggestion that speech be labeled as dangerous is extraordinary. Communications platforms are not comparable to unsafe food, unsafe cars, or cigarettes, all of which are physical products—rather than communications platforms—that can cause physical injury. Government warnings on speech implicate our fundamental rights to speak, to receive information, and to think. Murthy’s effort will harm teens, not help them, and the announcement puts the surgeon general in the same category as censorial public officials like Anthony Comstock.

Um what. I don't think it was about labeling speech. It's labeling the platform which includes a lot more than speech. Namely how and what speech is presented to a particular individual a.k.a. The Algorithm. This reads like a disingenuous interpretation to safeguard the interest of social media giants. I did not expect this take from the EFF.

Go home EFF, you're drunk.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Clearly you're not a lawyer. Just someone with bad opinion.

“Whether code is covered by free speech is actually pretty settled. The answer is yes" ... "the idea that certain industries or groups may want to regulate who can use particular pieces of code does not negate the idea that code generally ought to be considered a mode of expression subject to protection under the First Amendment”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh boy, this could be problematic.