Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’
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High Court challenge says law imposing ban is ‘grossly excessive’ and infringes on ‘constitutional right of freedom of political communication’

High Court challenge says law imposing ban is ‘grossly excessive’ and infringes on ‘constitutional right of freedom of political communication’

  • cyrano@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    Reality is social media companies are publishing companies and need to held to the same standards as publishers.

    • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      What standards are those? … Also, if I run a social media server, like Lemmy or Mastodon, am I now a publisher?

      • cyrano@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Vary by country but in nutshell Laws applying to newspapers cover a range of issues, including freedom of the press, defamation, privacy, intellectual property (authors’ rights), and legal requirements for advertisements and public notices.

        The main issue with today’s social media is the algo that act like a chief editor pushing opinion/specific in your face. Regarding fediverse, yes. If you start to hosting/publishing, copyrighted article, illegal content , etc.related to where it is hosted you will face the law in reality. This is why each server have their specific approach to this problem depending on where they are hosted https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/ as an example