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U.S. presidential election calls for change to social media laws

2024-09-22 20:13:24Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

U.S. presidential election calls for change to social media laws

Existing laws protecting freedom of speech on the internet are being questioned from across the United States political spectrum. VOA correspondent Matt Dibble takes a look at the position on the issue by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.

The two main political parties in the United States have different views on a range of issues, but they agree that social media companies need to change the way they operate. After the November presidential election, regardless of who wins them, there could be a change in social media laws.

"If we don't have freedom of speech, we simply don't have a free country."

On his website, Republican Donald Trump claims the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, is being violated by some social media companies.

After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Mr. Trump himself was temporarily barred from posting on some social media platforms.

"After my inauguration as President, I will ask Congress to draft a bill to amend Article 230, removing major Internet platforms from the censorship business."
Article 230, which is part of the 1996 law on language used during communications, has been pivotal in creating the internet that is in operation today, says Brandie Nonnecke, director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

"In fact, this law empowers platforms so that they can monitor and remove content without risk of being sued. We now hear often that the First Amendment is being violated by these platforms. However, the First Amendment concerns restrictions on freedom of speech by the government. Social media platforms are private entities that are protected by the First Amendment," she said.
Previous attempts to revise Article 230 have failed.

After Trump's Twitter accounts were suspended in 2021, Florida and Texas, two Republican-majority states, passed laws restricting the ability of social media companies to oversee political postings on their platforms.

But those laws were put on hold this year, when the Supreme Court ruled that social media companies have the right to make editorial decisions without government interference.

Politicians from Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris often accuse social media companies of allowing too many harmful speech on their platforms.

In 2022, Vice President Harris created a working group at the White House on addressing this problem.

"Hate has become so common online that it is becoming normalised for society and for users, some of whom may say it has become inevitable."
For now, the right of social media companies to control content on their sites remains in place, but for many politicians and U.S. citizens, it's still an unresolved issue.


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