Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”
Now let’s get back to net neutrality and rules on social media.
Rules for social media lol. What do you expect the government to do? How would they even enforce these rules? Social media sites would simply host in other countries outside of the USA to bypass regulations.
Instead of trying to regulate websites, how about we create better privacy protections for our citizens, eh?
I don’t think you put much thought into this, friend. Many social media companies are incorporated in the US to make use of US ad revenue sources. Where the servers are hosted doesn’t matter. The legal corporate entity is the important bit.
And as mentioned in the other comment, privacy protections would operate the same way, seeing as they are literally rules for social media, among other sites.
But yes, privacy protections would be great. Let’s do that
Even if that’s true I wouldn’t put it past the companies to find ways to circumvent regulations, and I think trying to advocate for regulating them sets a precedent against the free and open internet that websites are under government control, which shouldn’t be the case. Imagine if government started requiring government ID’s to access all websites (including Lemmy, which is a social network).
We’ll probably see them lobbying to give ISPs additional taxpayer funds to ‘expand’ broadband access while redefining broadband to be anything above 150Kbps.
