Correction, Please!
In a Self-interested Move, Big Tech Seeks Government Regulation
Item: Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, is pushing for government bodies to enforce stronger industry standards for social-media firms such as his own, as well as new legislation and regulations on the platform companies. In an article in the Washington Post for March 30, he wrote that “we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — while also protecting society from broader harms.”
Zuckerberg and Facebook have been under strong criticism for privacy issues and mishandling of personal information of users. In his op-ed, he called on governments worldwide to ally with social-media companies to regulate online speech. “Regulation could set baselines for what’s prohibited and require companies to build systems for keeping harmful content to a bare minimum.”
In addition, he maintained, “effective privacy and data protection needs a globally harmonized framework. People around the world have called for comprehensive privacy regulation in line with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, and I agree. I believe it would be good for the Internet if more countries adopted regulation such as GDPR as a common framework. New privacy regulation in the United States and around the world should build on the protections GDPR provides.”
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