Advocates of online speech indeed, of Internet communications generally are nervous the Supreme Court has taken up a case that could determine the constitutionality of a key ruling in the area.
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Based on the chatter in the corridors of political power and from elite intellectuals these days, one can’t help concluding that Twitter, Facebook and their social media cousins rank as the civilized world’s leading threats to democracy.
The Information, a technology website, ponders “How to Curb Tech Executives’ Power.” Yaël Eisenstat, a former CIA officer, White House advisor, and overseer of election ads at Facebook, writes at Harvard Business Review about “How to Hold Social Media Accountable for Undermining Democracy.”
Francis Fukuyama and two colleagues at Stanford in counseling “How to Save Democracy from Technology” in the pages of Foreign Affairs, decry what they call “big tech’s information monopoly” though they name Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter as the culprits.