Advances in the Senate the proposal of the coordinator of Morena, Ricardo Monreal, to legislate to regulate the performance of social networks, in order to protect the rights of the population and avoid excesses of large companies that dominate the market, such as Twitter and Facebook.
The initiative on the matter will be presented this week, he said, and specified that he had already met with the representatives in Mexico of the main companies that have control of social networks, to whom he explained “the need for a legal framework that regulate those who operate through the Internet and use the radioelectric spectrum ”.
Senator Monreal rejected that the intention is to censor messages on networks, but to prevent the human right to information from being violated, to regulate the protection of personal data and also the issue of taxation. He noted that due to its exponential growth, social media has become a highly profitable business model.
Millionaire earnings
Last year, he said, Facebook obtained profits of around 30 billion dollars and Twitter of almost 2.6 billion dollars, since the first account in Mexico with 85 million users and the second with 11 million.
It is a business model that generates income through the sale of advertising space and with the use of the personal data of its users as the main input.
He also explained that the tax burdens are very different from those of the traditional media, which also use public telecommunications networks.
Monreal highlighted that although Facebook, Twitter and other companies have self-regulated to avoid, for example, child pornography or hate messages, this is not enough. “Exceptional limits to freedom of expression should not be established discretionally, but be provided for in law.”
He gave as an example that in recent days Twitter canceled accounts of people who support the federal government, but not those who send hate messages to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and therefore it is necessary that the right to information and freedom of expression of the users are clearly established.
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