Facebook Fiasco Is Exactly What US Internet Law Incents Protects & Produces
One gets what one rewards and tolerates.
U.S. Internet law and policy, which exempts and immunizes Internet platforms from most normal social responsibility and government accountability, has created a de facto anti-social contract with the American people; a cheaters charter for Internet platforms; and an increasingly corrosive culture of unaccountability.
Inputs drive outputs. Favoring unaccountability, favors irresponsibility.
This latest Facebook fiasco is just the latest in a long series of Internet-unaccountability wake-up calls for Congress.
The problem here is not tech, technology, the Internet, or a business model. They are mere tools that can be used for good or for bad.
The problem here is Congress predicated 1996 U.S. Internet law and policy on the implicit utopian ideal and naïve presumption that Internet technologies and businesses would only be forces for social good and not harm.