Pedro Sánchez proposes to end the anonymity in social networks and that their owners respond criminally

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezhas proposed on Wednesday at the Davos Economic Forum a greater intervention in social networks so that these are ‘great’ again. This tour around three points that has broken down and will formally take the next meeting of the European Council in Brussels.

The first of these measures is end the anonymity of users on social networks. In the face of the rest, they can continue working with their user names in use, but The platforms will be obliged to link each of them with their real identityso that, in case they commit a crime, they can be identified by the police.

The second refers to the technology transparency. Sanchez wants to ‘force the opening of the black box of social networks algorithms’ so that the authorities can evaluate their operation and verify that they are not making hate speeches.

‘The algorithms, far from promoting equity, They are designed to hide certain political views and encourage others‘Sánchez said. ‘Networks have become a battlefield Full of manipulation, censorship and falsehoodand this has not happened by mistake, it has been systematically fed ‘with the objective of ‘Take power as the fascists did in the past’.

The last point directly affects the CEOs of these companies, which must be ‘Criminally responsible for what happens in their networks’. “Just as the owner of a restaurant is responsible if their clients are poisoned, the owners of the networks must be responsible if they poison the public debate,” he said.

What Sánchez calls ‘Technocasta’ He has been the subject of strong criticism in his speech. According to the president, ‘a small multimillionaire techno group is no longer satisfied with having the economic power almost entirely, but also He wants political power undermining our democratic institutions‘. ‘They think that because they are rich they are above the law and They can do whatever they want. That is why billionaires want to end democracy‘He added about his motivation.

According to Sánchez, networks have gone from being an agent of the dissemination of freedom and democracy to becoming the opposite. He has commented that even he had raised to unsubscribe in one of those networksbut that has decided not to do so because they are too important for the debate and must be changed from the public power.

‘I know it’s not going to be simple, I know,We are all a little scared‘, has recognized the president of the Government of Spain,’ because the people we face are very powerful, have almost unlimited financial and technological resources, very dangerous allies and are not playing clean because they are not complying withOur moral normsnor face these consequences. ‘ Despite the described panorama, Sánchez has been optimistic to affirm that ‘I know that we can win the battle because we are right, because we are more and because we have already done it in the past’.