The challenge of balanced content moderation

Here’s what Nick Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain and now Facebook’s head of global affairs, said in his recent speech about their content moderation decisions: "But it would be a much easier task as well as a more democratically sound one if some of the decisions that we have to make were instead taken by people who are democratically accountable to the people at large rather than by a private company." [...]in its current form Senator Hawley’s proposed bill is far broader than needed to achieve its purpose of ensuring that a wide range of views are presented on the major digital platforms. While the details of Fairness Doctrine enforcement practice are not suited to the different economic and technical capabilities of digital media, the general idea is sound and has been upheld by the Supreme Court in a 1969 decision that is still good law.