I predict with all this talk about "fake news" and social media policing it, I predict Net Neutrality to rear its head in a big way.
Has anyone noted that all the attention about click bait is being directed at sites that lean right? Ignoring sites that lean left?
What is president elect Trump's position?
Donald Trump does not support net neutrality. Actually, he thinks it will lead to the censorship of conservative media. “Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media,” he tweeted in 2014.
The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC policy that began in the 1940s and ended in 1987. The Washington Post has a good summary of what it was all about:
The Fairness Doctrine [...] required that TV and radio stations holding FCC-issued broadcast licenses to (a) devote some of their programming to controversial issues of public importance and (b) allow the airing of opposing views on those issues. This meant that programs on politics were required to include opposing opinions on the topic under discussion. Broadcasters had an active duty to determine the spectrum of views on a given issue and include those people best suited to representing those views in their programming.
So Trump was suggesting that net neutrality regulations would lead to censorship of online media that doesn’t include opposing opinions. That’s a ridiculous suggestion, since the net neutrality regulations had nothing to do with the content of the internet.
Has anyone noted that all the attention about click bait is being directed at sites that lean right? Ignoring sites that lean left?
What is president elect Trump's position?
Donald Trump does not support net neutrality. Actually, he thinks it will lead to the censorship of conservative media. “Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media,” he tweeted in 2014.
The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC policy that began in the 1940s and ended in 1987. The Washington Post has a good summary of what it was all about:
The Fairness Doctrine [...] required that TV and radio stations holding FCC-issued broadcast licenses to (a) devote some of their programming to controversial issues of public importance and (b) allow the airing of opposing views on those issues. This meant that programs on politics were required to include opposing opinions on the topic under discussion. Broadcasters had an active duty to determine the spectrum of views on a given issue and include those people best suited to representing those views in their programming.
So Trump was suggesting that net neutrality regulations would lead to censorship of online media that doesn’t include opposing opinions. That’s a ridiculous suggestion, since the net neutrality regulations had nothing to do with the content of the internet.