{"623705":{"#nid":"623705","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"False Assumptions Behind the Current Drive to Regulate Social Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/milton-l-mueller\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was recently quoted in the article\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;False Assumptions Behind the Current Drive to Regulate Social Media,\u0026quot; which was published by the Cato Institute on July 23.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the early days of the Internet, citing concerns about pedophiles and hackers, parents would worry about their children\u0026rsquo;s engagement on unfamiliar platforms. Now, those same parents have Facebook accounts and get their news from Twitter. However, one look at a newspaper shows op-eds aplenty castigating the platforms that host an ever-growing share of our social lives. Even after more than a decade of social media use, prominent politicians and individuals who lack critical awareness of the realities and limitations of social media platforms choose to scapegoat platforms\u0026mdash;rather than people\u0026mdash;for a litany of social problems. Hate speech on Facebook? Well, it\u0026rsquo;s obviously Facebook\u0026rsquo;s fault. Fake news? Obviously created by Twitter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut, what if these political concerns are misplaced? In a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/policy-analysis\/challenging-social-media-moral-panic-preserving-free-expression-under\u0022\u003Enew Cato Policy Analysis\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Milton Mueller argues that that the moral panic attending social media is misplaced.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/false-assumptions-behind-current-drive-regulate-social-media\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-25 22:11:46","changed_gmt":"2019-07-25 22:11:46","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Tech Staff Council","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/false-assumptions-behind-current-drive-regulate-social-media","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582876":{"id":"582876","type":"image","title":"Milton Mueller","body":null,"created":"1476981182","gmt_created":"2016-10-20 16:33:02","changed":"1610725021","gmt_changed":"2021-01-15 15:37:01","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Public Policy professor Milton Mueller","file":{"fid":"222189","name":"Mueller_Web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5365409,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mueller_Web.jpg?itok=jBv6d4Qa"}}},"media_ids":["582876"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169170","name":"Milton Mueller"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}