McCain's latest surprise: Regulate Facebook

[Sunlei]

Source: AXIOS

Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) knows his time in the public eye is short, so his big statements in recent weeks are especially resonant. Today, McCain will join with two Democrats — Sens. Mark Warner (Va.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) — to give bipartisan imprimatur to the first of the "Facebook bills," responding to last year's election interference.


•"Amending the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002's definition of electioneering communication to include paid Internet and digital advertisements. Currently only broadcast television, radio, cable and satellite communications are included."


•"Requiring digital platforms to maintain a public file of all electioneering communications it sells above specific thresholds."


•"The file would contain a digital copy of the advertisement, a description of the audience the advertisement targets, the number of views generated, the dates and times of publication, the rates charged, and the contract information of the purchaser."


•"Requiring online platforms to make reasonable efforts to ensure that foreign individuals and entities are not purchasing political advertisements in order to influence the American electorate."



Read more: https://www.axios.com/mccains-latest-surprise-regulate-facebook-2498450082.html?utm_source=sidebar

[mac56]

1. Misleading headline.

[snooper2]

2. Not so much since Facebook would take the majority of the blunt

Of course it applies across the board. You can't make laws targeting a specific individual or corporate entity.

[Raster]

3. Yes! Yes! And OH HELL YES!

[jrthin]

9. +1000

[PearliePoo2]

4. I saw Senator Amy Klobuchar on 'Morning Joe' talking about this!

This needs to be done!

Expose the Russians and their rubles behind this shit to wage war on our country.
As they talked about on the program, it will be REAL interesting to see what treasonous fucks in Congress oppose this and on what grounds.

K&R

[Sunlei]

5. This needs to be done quickly. I didn't realize ONLY radio & TV are somewhat 'regulated'

[Wednesdays]

13. IIRC, cable TV has never been regulated. nt

[usaf-vet]

20. I'd love to know at what dollar level the reporting is required.

So... if an ad cost $10,000 and it needs to be reported. What would happen if 10 foreign agent ran 10 $1,000 ads. 10 ads with the same message running for one week for a sequential 10 total weeks. All submitted by 10 different individuals. Rather than one $10,000 ad running for 10 weeks.

I'll bet by the time congress is finished writing the legislation a way around the reporting will be included.

Report it all $1.00 or $100,000,000 the voters deserve to know.

[Not Ruth]

6. I would require a caption stating that this was a paid political ad and require acknowledgement

Before you were allowed to view the ad

[Honeycombe8]

7. It's probably time to do this, since tv political ads are reported/regulatd. Too bad they screwed up

They have shown they won't do the right thing, given total freedom. Their bad. History has shown that time and time again, when you give a big company free reign, greed takes over, and people suffer.

[Honeycombe8]

8. McCain's on a roll. He's going out with a bang.

History will remember him well not just for his heroism, his long political life and accomplishments, but also for the things he did in his final time.

[msongs]

10. everytime u view an ad on DU you will go into the data base nt

[LudwigPastorius]

16. I don't get that from this, "a description of the audience the advertisement targets".

"A description" connotes "registered white male voters aged 25 to 45", or "Hispanic likely voters", not a list of names of people who actually viewed an ad.

[marylandblue]

11. I hope he lives long enough to see this through

[blueinredohio]

12. Not only Facebook it should be all social media

[YOHABLO]

14. So his tenure in Congress is coming to an end. So he becomes more rational? I don't get that.

[Loyd]

15. Good Idea!

Falsebook should be regulated at minimum! TwitSpace too. In fact, I wouldn't shed a tear if both of 'em were erased from existence!

[jmowreader]

17. The headline made me say, ah Hell No!

Then I saw this is about political advertising and goes across all platforms, and it’s an idea that came the day political ads on the Internet did, and is a good one.

[DK504]

18. I don't know if it's because I dislike the Facebook

crew so much, but yes. They have gotten away with for too long. It's time.

Sen. McCain go after finance reform again.

[Grins]

19. From the same people....

"The file would contain a digital copy of the advertisement, a description of the audience the advertisement targets, the number of views generated, the dates and times of publication, the rates charged, and the contract information of the purchaser."

From the same people who refuse to reveal the names of donors made under Citizens United.

When you do that guys - call me.