"We Don't Know What We Want": The Tug between Rights and Public Health Online

Authors

Jonathan Zittrain

Abstract

Twitter and Facebook boast billions of subscribers, many of whom are real people. The companies are also roundly hated, particularly by tech experts-at least those who follow them for something other than their stock performance.¹ Objections to platforms' behavior are commonly expressed as amazement that they could be so obviously and consistently wrong in failing to police awful content their users post. There is also amazement about unobjectionable posts and comments from users that they take down.² That, in turn, has led to pressure for regulatory initiatives to push the companies into doing what they so clearly ought to be doing in the first place.

First Page

183

Recommended Citation

Jonathan Zittrain, "We Don't Know What We Want": The Tug between Rights and Public Health Online, 61 Duq. L. Rev. 183 (2023).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol61/iss2/2