Tyrants on Twitter by David L. Sloss

Author:David L. Sloss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The regulations should give existing account holders a reasonable period of time, perhaps three or six months, to update their accounts by providing the necessary account registration information. Companies should be obligated to suspend the accounts of any existing users who fail to provide the required disclosures within the specified time period.

In sum, a mandatory disclosure regime for public accounts is necessary to enable Alliance member states to detect and block fictitious users. The required disclosures will vary by country and by the type of social media user—e.g., natural persons versus artificial persons and minors versus adults. Despite these variations, every Alliance member state should establish disclosure requirements that are sufficient to enable its government to determine that any person who claims to be a national of that state is indeed a national of that state, and not a fictitious user.

Information Sharing Protocols

The term “account registration information” refers to the information that social media users disclose to companies when they apply to open an account. Since all existing users will be required to update their accounts, “account registration information” also refers to information that existing users disclose to companies when they update their accounts. Regulations should require social media companies to share account registration information for all public accounts with the relevant government entities when a new user applies to open an account, or when an existing user updates his account. The required information sharing should apply only to master accounts. The regulations should prohibit companies from revealing to governments information about the number or types of subsidiary accounts linked to a particular master account, because users have a valid interest in protecting the privacy of such information, and governments do not need that information to detect impostor accounts or fictitious user accounts. Similarly, the regulations should prohibit companies from revealing information about private accounts to national governments, except insofar as other national laws require disclosure.

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