Social media providers also provide users with an opportunity to prevent anyone who may scare them. People are also entitled to report any inappropriate information published by a person on the Internet to legal entities in their country. Most social networking sites use a range of technological and social mechanisms to monitor and control their users. Facebook and Twitter subscribers have a billion and 200 million subscribers, respectively (Wagner, 2016). Thus, this means that if the two companies require many employees and a lot of resources to control many subscribers. Therefore, if social media providers are classified as publishers, meaning that they will be responsible for the content posted by their users, it will be difficult for them …show more content…
Therefore, social media providers say they offer platforms for discussion, but they do not publish opinions that could be a threat or rebellion. They provide their users with a place where they can express that they can pass their information or voice their concerns, then users are the ones who should be responsible for any information posted on social media sites (Zittrain, Faris, Noman, Clark, Tilton, & Morrison-Westphal, 2017). However, some legal entities consider their justification to be unreliable. The objects of the law state that social networking sites are dominant, making them very powerful and the authorities assume their responsibilities. Therefore, social media companies should be responsible for any misleading information published by any of its users (MacKinnon, Hickok, Bar, & Lim, 2015). Suspending the users’ accounts is not enough because the users can still open other minds using false information. Entities of the law stipulate that owners of social networking sites must do more to provide many opportunities that protect their users from exposure to any danger and to eliminate any offender whether its purpose is to harm or by accident. The failure of these companies to act against people who publish wrong messages on their sites makes more people behave irresponsibly. For example, Twitter has …show more content…
Social media providers are only the sole intermediary of video images or any information posted by their users. Although they do not create such content, they play a crucial role in determining the content that can be allowed on their platforms and materials that can remove and on any basis. These rights violated when intellectual property rights burned or when a person passes a controversial speech. Under the law, social media providers are exempt from liability for content posted by their users. That means, therefore, that social service providers are not responsible for any defamation messages posted by their users on the Internet (Wagner,