Walt Mossberg

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@reckless @facebook Also, I don’t regard the current debate as considered or serious. It’s colored by both deep ignorance and by phony political grievances. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @facebook I’m not saying that speech be made illegal. I’m just suggesting that we need a law clarifying that, like newspapers, Facebook carries a legal risk for publishing and amplifying with algorithms speech that would be grounds for libel or any other existing risk borne by publishers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jason_kint @reckless @facebook Antitrust and other policies also have a part to play. And, yes, regulating giant tech companies is complex. But it must be done. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jason_kint @reckless @facebook Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @facebook And, by the way, you may be a lapsed lawyer, but you know very well that publications can be convicted of libel for publishing falsehoods that damage plaintiffs. Facebook can’t. So Russia can’t create a bot and fill the @WSJ with misinformation that serves its interests. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @facebook What I want, my friend, is for us to be having this debate in the context of a serious effort to pass America’s first statutes setting guardrails for the Internet. We desperately need real laws on this. Not the political stunts going on now. And not the primitive 1996 law. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jason_kint @reckless @facebook No. The velocity and reach make it worse for sure. But the fact that it can masquerade as a tech platform, when it makes choices about what people can see, and does deals for content, means it and others like it need to be governed by new statutes. https://t.co/BaZiEy7mJt — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @facebook Murdoch is subject to libel laws. Facebook isn’t. Facebook gets to say, because of 230, “we aren’t responsible for what we publish”. Murdoch doesn’t. Yet the disinformation on Facebook is far worse and far more consequential than anything in the NY Post. We need new laws. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @facebook Murdoch’s *newspapers* haven’t done even a fraction of the damage that Facebook has done. Cable - as you well know - is barely regulated. — PolitiTweet.org

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@idontknowanaim @reckless @facebook I don’t know. It was 1996. Internet advertising was primitive. The whole law is ridiculously out of date. But I disagree with you that ads are the worst problem on services like Facebook. It’s the insidious false posts from fake accounts. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless Maybe 230 shouldn’t be abolished, but it sure should be replaced by a new statute or statutes for this era. @facebook isn’t a neutral platform. It’s a publisher and a media company. So the media regime it should operate under is closer to a newspaper than an operating system. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @susanthesquark: My book is now coming out a month earlier, on February 18th, almost exactly three years after I published my blog post.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@susanthesquark Big congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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I find it interesting that ⁦@Google⁩ has begun saying its goal is to get to “Ambient Computing”. This is the future I predicted, by name, in my last weekly tech column more than two years ago. Scroll down to see me discuss both its good & bad sides. https://t.co/juoi4FARnt — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac @briankoppelman @DavidLevien @Showtime Huge congrats, man! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pkafka: Mike Fucking Isaac is turning his Uber book into a Showtime show with the Billions guys. Congrats to @MikeIsaac for ignoring my… — PolitiTweet.org

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@philipberne I agree. The last thing Google needs is to lose Samsung from the Android world, and to push Samsung into trying to become a real platform company, something it always seems to want to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reckless: Must-read ⁦from FCC commissioner @JRosenworcel⁩ in the Atlantic on why she voted against the Sprint / T-Mobile merger today h… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LaurenGoode: .@adriennemso's thoughtful review of the Facebook Portal: "Products don't exist in a vacuum, and it's getting harder to ma… — PolitiTweet.org

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Working for the News Literacy Project has many rewards, but the most important is that you’d be helping the cause of teaching students how to sort online fact from fiction, and thus to bolster Democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benyankee Ok. Misunderstood. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sdkstl All I could think of. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s been a long time since anything this great has happened in Washington! — PolitiTweet.org

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@benyankee Really? Trash talking already? — PolitiTweet.org

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The @Nationals win it! The @Nationals win it! The World Series is coming to D.C.! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carlquintanilla: “I Love Lucy” premieres on this date in 1951, on CBS. But really, this is the only clip anyone wants to see. 💕 “Job S… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @propublica: That’s one lobbyist for every 14 political appointees, and four times more than Obama appointed in his first six years. h… — PolitiTweet.org

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@benyankee @Yankees @Nationals Their setup man and closer did quite well in Game 2, and in Game 3, two other relievers were fine. So, while you’re right that the Washington bullpen has been a weakness, and they’d rather not rely on middle relief, the pen seems to be rising to the occasion at the right time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benyankee If the @Yankees win, as I suspect they will, you’d better be worried about the streaking, peaking, fired-up @Nationals down the highway. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RockyPinnick: My relationship with the #Redskins Go #Nats Go https://t.co/UQdBhhTtQt — PolitiTweet.org