Dean W. Ball
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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And they have social unrest problems that they need to deal with that aren't as palpable here in the US, but they're very worried about it.
And even within the United States signs that it could happen, there are state laws you know, I'm obsessive about state government.
And we've seen s laws from Florida and Texas, for example, that really did try to create mandate new content moderation policies, l let me say, in the patois of public policy, rather than saying mandate different kinds of censorship than the old kinds of censorship.
Republican censorship, not Democrat censorship.
We've seen that from those states.
They've tried to do it.
And we also see blue states, Maryland, New York, California, um others that are doing these algorithmic design laws, which ultimately are going to be about government influencing the
parameters that govern social media algorithm development.
So we'll see that kind of stuff.
It's an interesting question how far it's gonna get.
I cover this issue pretty closely on my Substack.
Whenever there's new news, I follow this quite closely for this reason.
The laws in Florida and Texas that I mentioned went to the Supreme Court earlier this year and they lost big time.
But there are some nuances that make me think, oh, there might be certain versions of these laws you can pass that the Supreme Court is actually okay with.
Politically p public policy mandating different kinds of political algorithm design is not going to fly at all.
Like that is not gonna happen in America because uh you know, unless like Kamala Harris like hacks the court with, you know
people, you know, like or Trump does.
But like right under this Supreme Court, there's no way in hell.
We live in the golden age, frankly, of First Amendment jurisprudence in America right now.
But
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