Joseph Gordon-Levitt kritisiert Big Tech wegen Sextortion und Bedrohung von Kindern und fordert eine grundlegende Internetreform
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joseph-gordon-levitt-slams-big-tech-sextortion-threats-children-while-calling-key-internet-reform
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He might as well just put on a mask and become Batman if he wants to see an internet reform happen
(Or robin in his case)
Yeah, there’s battles that make sense to fight. Fighting against 230 with this stuff ain’t it bro.
Media try not to use corny words in titles (impossible):
“Guy A slams Guy B for something something”
Here’s what is not mentioned: I get Gordon-Levitt’s emotional “concerned parent” argument, and do not think he’s lying about being scared. The part that feels like nonsense is the policy leap he keeps making from “AI / Social Media worries me” to “we need sweeping regulation / weaken Section 230.”
Recently, he’s leaned hard into fear mongering while sounding pretty under-informed about how AI and recommendation algorithms already work and what existing guardrails/laws actually cover.
And if you unwind the Section 230 angle, the real-world outcome isn’t “safer kids,” it’s “platforms get sued over users’ posts,” which pushes sites to over-moderate, kill comment sections, and/or require real-ID just to reduce risk. This leads to Chinese-style dystopian internet.
That kind of internet ends up more locked down: less open, less anonymous, less speech. It’s basically the opposite of what people think they’re voting for. I can’t believe this is a bipartisan issue unless of course it’s highly beneficial to politicians and corporations who would benefit from control of the information available to the public on the internet…
Edit: [JosephGordon-Levitt Sides With ICE](https://youtu.be/g6wRnbgBUBE?si=KI76-LwZqd8pNyBv). Also, [Complete Nonsense](https://youtu.be/5wt5sHr3b_4?si=KvNkP5yjwY6r93aK)
He comes across as not knowing the outcome of his proposal which at best means he’s uninformed and at the worst a useful idiot.
Parents are the gatekeepers for internet connections for kids. Kids dont have jobs, cant buy devices, and cant get online without their parents. Kids cannot get an internet connection.
The only thing governments need to require is giving parental tools over kids accounts and devices.
Kids accounts should only be made as a child account of an adult account. The adult should get 100% review access and moderation control over their childs account.
Cases closed, problem solved. Leave the blocking up to the parents and not the kids.
The only extra step is you can impose criminal penalties for any person that makes an fake adult account to make a unrestricted child account.
Put everything on the parents to decide what their kids can and cannot do. The government has no place in banning kids. The government just needs the regulation giving parents 100% control over their kids accounts.
You can even take it a step further to punish kids if they find ways around the parental controls and do something criminal. Like 1 year ban from the internet.
His wife is Tasha McCauley who was literally on the board at ChatGPT. I think he knows what he’s talking about.
I do not trust a single politician with „internet reform“
Only way to fix the internet is to get rid of the anonymity. People would be a lot less toxic and shitty if it was easily traced to them. Anonymous posting has brought out the worst in society.
He’s working with the Heritage Foundation.
Neat?
Joseph Golden Rabbit is a good dude.
I don’t see how this very website or any other major website could exist without 230. The whole premise of web 2.0 is predicated on the idea that users are responsible for the content and platforms will moderate to the best of their ability. Without 230, there will either be no web 2.0 or a completely unmoderated web 2.0 because any attempt at moderation would result in lawsuits.
He’s trying to draw attention away from the pigeon incident
And he’s standing in front of an American flag to let Republicans know he’s patriotic… that’s really all they need.., they’re simple people
I just realized that he looks like Temu John Cena.
Wouldn’t be a day without a SLAMS in the headline now would it..
The term „tech companies“ is becoming seriously unhelpful. They are media companies like Fox News or the New York Times, not tech companies like Samsung or Dell.
Stop giving FoxNews and the Murdoch family click thru ad revenue!
Think of the children…says the politicians that looked the other way for a pedophile sex trafficker.
Yay I love celebrities trying to convince our politicians to censor the internet!/s
Repealing section 230, which is what he called for, is part of project 2025 so I don’t trust it to help in the slightest.
He wants to repeal section 230. Which would open up every single platform to being sued for anything posted by their users. This includes lawsuits that have no chance of winning, but drain millions from the platform.
This will also lead to mass censorship of journalists as these platforms crackdown on controversial topics to avoid slap lawsuits.
He’s right, but that still doesn’t make the pigeon story go away, man.
They were pigeons!
JGL is a major dude.
Hes playing with fire under the guise of protecting the children
I think JGL needs to just live his own life….he has his own demons to deal with