Well, it’s that time of year again when I see how well my predictions for the year performed. With the advent of Covid-19, I’m not confident that many of them came to pass.
– The one I was definitely right about involved social media giants. Over the course of the year, social media platforms filtered out more people whose political beliefs they disagreed with and at the time of writing, 48 states in the US have filed a case against Facebook in order to break its monopoly. Other social media platforms are also under fire from political parties that dominate the US. Basically, social media giants have revealed themselves to be publishers rather than platforms and this has led to demands that their prior protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act be stripped or at least the wording be modified. How this plays…
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