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Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online (www.pewresearch.org)

submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

If the FCC can regulate content on television, they can regulate content on the internet.

The only reason the FCC doesn't is the Republican-dominated FCC when Ajit Pai was in charge argued that broadband is an "information service" and not a "telecommunications service" which is like the hair splittingest of splitting fucking hairs. It's fucking both.

Anyway, once it was classified as "information service" it became something the FCC (claimed it) didn't have authority to regulate in the same way, allowing them to gut net neutrality.

If they FCC changed the definition back to telecommunications, they wouldn't be able to regulate foreign websites, but they can easily regulate US sites and regulate entities who want to do business in the US using an internet presence.