The pitfalls of regulating social media
November has been an eventful month for people on either side of the free-speech debate. On November 17, the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, appeared before the US Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about their companies labelling content as “free speech” or “hate speech”. While the Republican senators questioned the platforms on censorship and anti-conservative bias, Democrats raised issues relating to content inciting violence and social unrest. Some law- makers even wanted to strip some of the legal protection the tech companies have from the majority of content posted on their platforms. The free…
