Thought Leadership on Social Media Regulation
Are We Losing Freedom of Speech?
Why Florida government focused on content moderation from a different angle and how others react to this perspective
Introduction
Florida is the first state attempting to regulate how social media organizations moderate online content.
Can we really regulate the Internet, or more precisely social media like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube?
Many attempts to regulate the Internet failed in the past. Probably people of my age would remember this historical speech by John Perry Barlow in 1996.
It is called “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”.
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies…
