Comments on: Fines are fine, but only structural reform can rein in the platform monopolies https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/fining-facebook-isnt-enough-structural-reform-needed-rein-platform-monopolies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fining-facebook-isnt-enough-structural-reform-needed-rein-platform-monopolies Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.8 By: BigA https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/fining-facebook-isnt-enough-structural-reform-needed-rein-platform-monopolies/#comment-1333 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 08:47:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3218#comment-1333 Social media is very good for bringing together people with shared interests and needs.However I agree that a structural reform of governance is required. I think that responsibility should be taken for anything posted on social media and that providers of social media platforms Google, Facebook, Twitter etc should be legally classified worldwide as publishers. In that way they would be legally responsible for content that is illegal, inciting racial hatred, depicts sexual violence or contains instructions on how to manufacture anything that is designed to kill or be injurious to health. I think in view of recent actions around the world it is only a question of time before such a legal classification will be brought in but in the meanwhile we all suffer.

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