Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) asked Zuckerberg what he is doing to stop “disinformation.”The escalating incursion on social media signals government intervention. And in a convoluted way, that's what social media regulation would do. That is, in exaggerating “weaponization” of social media, I fear politicians threaten the right to anonymous speech. But the wrong legislation, implementing universal rules of the social media experience that impute liability or make alternative services assuring anonymous speech less available, would benefit Facebook. Social media regulation, however, will turn Facebook into that relative to prospective competition, and potentially undermine anonymous speech.

Source: Forbes April 26, 2018 19:41 UTC