From the Mercury News
Rage against the social media machine: How did it get to this?
By Ethan Baron
People are angry at Facebook. People are angry at YouTube. People are angry at Twitter.
With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg set to testify before Congress less than a week after an enraged YouTube user wounded three people before killing herself at the company’s headquarters, the growing debate over what Silicon Valley’s social media giants do with the content and information we give them has hit a new pitch....
The outcry has led to increasing calls for regulation, but few expect new rules to be a quick fix....
Other regulatory action could focus on antitrust issues and the social media giants’ content-moderation practices, said UC Berkeley law professor Chris Hoofnagle, who teaches internet law. “You could see the left and right begin to unify around a competition agenda to deal with the censorship issues,” Hoofnagle said.
Chris Hoofnagle is an adjunct professor in the School of Information and the School of Law.
