Digital Regulation

 US Law Section 230 (1996)

A media platform is not held responsible for the content on their site.

The company must regulate its own content as long as it acts in good faith.

These companies can only regulate once the content is already released.

Twitter

These companies, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, can only regulate once the content is already released.

Twitter has these safety regulations for their users: 

Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence.

Terrorism/violent extremism: You may not threaten or promote terrorism or violent extremism.

Child sexual exploitation: We have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation on Twitter. 

Abuse/harassment: You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm.

Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. 

Perpetrators of violent attacks: We will remove any accounts maintained by individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks, and may also remove Tweets disseminating manifestos or other content produced by perpetrators.

Suicide or self-harm: You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm.

Sensitive media, including graphic violence and adult content: You may not post media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within live video or in profile or header images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault is also not permitted.

Illegal or certain regulated goods or services: You may not use our service for any unlawful purpose or in furtherance of illegal activities. This includes selling, buying, or facilitating transactions in illegal goods or services, as well as certain types of regulated goods or services.

Case Study

Andrew Tate is a social media figure, entrepreneur, and a former kick boxer who had his shot to stardom recently through different social medias. He is known for making motivational videos and his famous masculinity by a wide range of audience. And recently, Tate had been making sensitive comments in his videos which triggered a lot of social media users.

A lot of social media audiences often find his words sensitive due to the misogynistic comments that he's been making in his videos and tweets. Most of his tweets involve toxic masculinity, treating women like objects, and saying other inappropriate things about females. Eventually, Andrew Tate was banned in Twitter in 2017 due to crossing the line.

Despite his ban, Tate continued to use the social media site with an alternate account which was verified long enough in the platform in 2021. As time goes, he continued to create contents in other social media sites such as YouTube and TikTok, and his contents peaked in July 2022.

Eventually, other social medias such as YouTube, Instagram, and Tiktok banned Andrew Tate's account in their platform due to the same reasons.