An Internet Fairness Doctrine

There's growing, bi-partisan support for government regulation of the internet. The Left wants to censor hate speech while the Right wants to prevent platforms from downvoting conservative speech. Both approaches are filled with free speech landmines. And even a cursory look at the history of government regulation of mass media shows just how even the most well-intended government action can easily turn into suppression of political dissent, regulatory capture, and gross violation of civil liberties. John Samples, from Facebook's independent oversight board, joins the show again to discuss a paper he co-wrote with host Paul Matzko about several of those sordid episodes and the lessons we should have already learned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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An Internet Fairness Doctrine is an episode from Building Tomorrow by Libertarianism.org.

This episode is 43:13 long.

This episode was published on Aug 20, 2020.

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