SACRAMENTO – A California lawmaker wants anyone operating a social media website with news to run their stories through a state-approved verification process before publication. If it could happen in California, watch for Illinois liberals to "see the need" for similar legislation, as well.
It's "to mitigate the spread of false information," the bill's wording says. The definition of "false information" or how the fact checker board would function and who would serve on it is not mentioned.
The bill does not require radio, newsprint or television news sources to follow the same protocol, however. The bill is SB1424 Internet: social media: false information: strategic plan.
This bill would require any person who operates a social media, as defined, Internet Web site with a physical presence in California to develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Web site. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a plan to mitigate the spread of false information through news stories, the utilization of fact-checkers to verify news stories, providing outreach to social media users, and placing a warning on a news story containing false information.
(a) Any person who operates a social media Internet Web site with physical presence in California shall develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Internet Web site.
(b) The strategic plan shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) A plan to mitigate the spread of false information through news stories.
(2) The utilization of fact-checkers to verify news stories.
(3) Providing outreach to social media users regarding news stories containing false information.
(4) Placing a warning on a news story containing false information.
(c) As used in this section, “social media” means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or Internet Web site profiles or locations.
“A California Lawmaker,” eh?
Who is this Marxist-Socialist bastard to propose a law promoting government censorship against free speech and contrary opinion?
I suggest he start by censoring the crap seen daily in the leftist sources New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press.
All of the above three daily publications/”news” sources receive wider public attention than what some poor schmuck puts on his “social media” device.
While there is wild outrage over Facebook’s illicit violation of privacy rights, few seem to be mentioning the downgrading and outright censorship of conservative sites by Google. They have begun to try and destroy conservative access to this, now public, utility.
If you doubt that just look at the groups which Twitter has enlisted to censor its social media program (get ready to become ill):
https://about.twitter.com/en_us/safety/safety-partners.html
One can only guess who Google has determining which groups are “unacceptable to the community.” Most conservative sites – including one of mine – have been wildly downgraded on the Google search engine – which has now almost 75% of searches in the world.
The only solution is for the US Justice Department Anti-Trust Division to break up Google, Facebook and Twitter oligopolies- just as they broke up Ma Bell in the 80s.
The leftist States don’t need to censor. Google et.al. are already doing it for them.
This is a genuine threat to democracy.
Goebbels did that for Hitler
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Carl Lambrecht
Amazing and scary that an elected official has no understanding of our Constitutional protections. This wouldn’t stand up for a second at the current Supreme Court. Thank God Hillary didn’t win and make the SCJ appointment!
The California department of propaganda and news speak. Never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
Ed – Congress may not move on prodding the DOJ into breaking up these monopolies because Google, et.al have spread so much money around Washington – think Adam Kinzinger and Peter Roskam. And it may be great that Hillary didn’t win, but since Trump has a sleepy, do-nothing, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, likely no one will act. This is very dangerous.
I’d like to see Pravda, I mean the NYT do that…
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