Social Media
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Lay off antitrust actions against U.S. tech companies. Is the federal government just trying to lose our dominant lead in the world’s fastest-growing industry? Stop!
Pursue deregulation of the airwaves to encourage innovation, lower prices, and increase efficiency.
Reinstitute the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the leading U.S. intelligence operation charged with “mitigating threats to democracy and U.S. national interests.”
Reinstitute the initiative run by the Global Engagement Centre (GEC) that coordinated cooperation with our European allies to identify and expose disinformation operations targeting America and Americans.
Support legislation that requires social media platforms to disclose to their users when hostile governments or their agents are making propaganda claims in posts.
Pass – and properly enforce – data privacy legislation. The legislation must include Purpose Limitation, the requirement that data collected for one purpose cannot be used for another.
Repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Classify broadband service as a “telecommunications,” restoring net neutrality as the national standard for broadband reliability, security, and consumer protection (net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers must treat all internet traffic equally, without blocking or prioritizing certain content, applications, or services over others). Ensure that broadband services are treated as an essential resource deserving of FCC oversight under Title II authority.
Pass legislation that modernizes campaign finance laws to account for online political advertising, expanding the regulation of TV and radio ads to internet ads. The legislation should also increase election advertising transparency by allowing the public to see who bought an online political ad, regardless of its origin.
Expand the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Anything surveilling the movement of minors should never happen. Ever.
Pressure the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize data collection methods to see if they constitute deceptive practices under existing law.
Demand the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) establish a data-broker clearinghouse that would function similarly to the FTC’s “Do Not Call” registry. The clearinghouse would allow Americans to submit a single, one-time request to all registered data brokers to delete their data and prevent future collection.
Have a zero-tolerance policy toward cyberbullying. Fully prosecute abusers of the law.