What started out as a spat between President Donald Trump and Twitter has now ballooned to involve an executive order, the Federal Communications Commission, and Facebook, whose employees staged a “virtual walkout,” enraged that Mark Zuckerberg has allowed the President’s controversial words — deemed to “glorify violence” by Twitter — to remain, unaltered, on Facebook. These recent skirmishes underscore a key issue facing our democracy: Who should legislate speech on the internet, and how?
What started out as a spat between President Donald Trump and Twitter has now ballooned to involve an executive order, the Federal Communications Commission, and Facebook, whose employees staged a “virtual walkout,” enraged that Mark Zuckerberg has allowed the President’s controversial words — deemed to “glorify violence” by Twitter — to remain, unaltered, on Facebook. These recent skirmishes underscore a key issue facing our democracy: Who should legislate speech on the internet, and how?
