April 12th, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Facebook Testifies Before Congress, but Where’s Google?
Where’s Google?
That’s the question asked by Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, in an op-ed published by The Hill in the lead up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s much-anticipated testimony before Congressional committees this week.
While Facebook understandably is dominating the news, Lee wrote, “Google’s data practices are perhaps even more troubling.”
Lee goes on to suggest that its time for all internet platforms, including Facebook, Google and others, to stop eschewing accountability:
As a threshold matter, platforms must accept that they play an important role in addressing the harms they enable. To date, their voluntary measures have fallen far short, largely consisting of asking outside groups like Wikipedia or Snopes.com to referee their problems. But non-profit encyclopedias and fact-checkers simply aren’t equipped to solve these problems, particularly those who might possess their own biases and motives. Platforms themselves can and should do far more to address illegal and illicit conduct they facilitate.
The internet has changed the way we communicate, conduct commerce and entertain ourselves. Growing concerns about the ease with which bad actors exploit it, however, undermines consumer confidence and erodes public trust. By eschewing accountability, dominant online platforms contribute to that downward spiral.
Read the entire op-ed
here.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Follow CFIF for Election Night Coverage
Tonight, CFIF will be tweeting live during Election Night in Massachusetts. The race is a pure tossup between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley.
When in doubt, though, we trust the markets. Intrade, the betting market for all things political, currently predicts that Brown has an 84% chance of winning, a huge increase from earlier this month.
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November 4th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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The Center for Individual Freedom is up on Twitter and Facebook. We currently have over 750 followers on Twitter and 285 members on our Facebook group.
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Facebook Now Friends with FCC
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the push for so-called “net neutrality” is heating up in corporate boardrooms, as Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Amazon penned a letter to FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Chairman Julius Genachowki this week in support of his plan for stifling government regulation of private high-speed wireline and wireless networks.
The FCC is scheduled to release details of its net neutrality rules on Thursday. However, the period for public comment is still open. Or, you can call the Congressional switchboard (202-224-3121) to air your views against government regulation of the Internet with your elected officials.
The Center for Individual Freedom opposes so-called “net neutrality” because it would introduce stifling government regulations onto what is now a free and open Internet. More here and here.
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