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Meta Won’t Fight Online Kid Safety Regulations Because It Sees Them As A Competitive Moat
Forget everything you think you know about Mark Zuckerberg and his army of lobbyists blocking any attempt to regulate social media. The truth is more nuanced (but perhaps less complicated). Meta is…
The social media giant would not back an attempt to block the measure in court, a lawyer for the firm Rifkin Weiner Livingston wrote in a previously unreported email to Maryland Del. Amid concern that NetChoice would also challenge the similar Maryland law, Solomon and other state lawmakers urged the group’s member companies in letters last month to “comply” and “not attempt to undermine this bipartisan, lifesaving effort by suing to block its enactment.” So, there’s a lot to comment on here, but let’s start with this: in an age where we’re supposedly concerned with government “jawboning” to suppress speech, it’s pretty ridiculous for a legislator to demand companies “not attempt to undermine this bipartisan, lifesaving effort by suing to block its enactment.”
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