{"id":67150,"date":"2024-04-03T19:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67150"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:27:53","slug":"head-of-controversial-global-engagement-center-admits-europes-regulatory-power-over-social-media-censorship-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67150","title":{"rendered":"Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe\u2019s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe\u2019s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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James Rubin also laments that Big Tech doesn’t enforce its terms of service more aggressively.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The head of the US State Department\u2019s highly controversial\u00a0Global Engagement Center (GEC)<\/a>, James Rubin, appears to be on a \u201cpress tour\u201d to promote more stringent regulation around social media, and more censorship.<\/p>\n

Rubin is doing this seemingly oblivious of the \u201celephant in the room\u201d \u2013 that GEC is at the center of scandals involving government\/Big Tech collusion (this bureau engaged in flagging posts on social media) and even lawsuits stemming from these accusations.<\/p>\n

Many of Rubin\u2019s comments made on a recent\u00a0Politico podcast episode<\/a>\u00a0compare and contrast the degree to which the EU and the US are able to regulate social media (and stifle speech).<\/p>\n

He also seeks to reinforce the perception of GEC not as a government workaround for carrying out censorship on privately-owned platforms (which would be illegal in the US), but as an entity that is vital in combating \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this case, AI is considered as a \u201cforce for good,\u201d as Rubin revealed GEC would start using it to counter what it decides to consider as \u201cdisinformation,\u201d and the policy is also to make sure as many other countries as possible fall in line with the US on this issue.<\/p>\n

Regarding what the US could learn from others, Rubin singled out the EU where regulatory frameworks allow the authorities to carry out control and censorship of online information more aggressively, but also praised the work his country, the UK, and Canada are doing together to impose the use of\u00a0AI watermarks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked to what degree GEC \u201cengages directly\u201d with social platforms, Rubin first deflected by lamenting about how much better equipped the EU is to combat \u201cmisinformation\u201d thanks to greater regulatory powers, and then claimed that GEC \u201cdoes not work with them (platforms) \u2013 we meet with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe\u2019s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement James Rubin also laments that Big Tech doesn’t enforce its terms of service more aggressively. The head of the US State Department\u2019s highly controversial\u00a0Global Engagement Center (GEC), James Rubin, appears to be on a \u201cpress tour\u201d to promote more stringent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,279,284,29884,379,33878,1169],"class_list":["post-67150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-global-engagement-center","tag-government","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67151,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150\/revisions\/67151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}