FILE - In this April 18, 2017 file photo, conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. The U.K. for the first time on Monday April 8, 2019, proposed direct regulation of social media companies, with senior executives potentially facing fines if they fail to block damaging content such as terrorist propaganda or images of child abuse.
The British plans would create a statutory “duty of care” for social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to protect people who use their sites. The plan, which includes an independent regulator funded by a levy on internet companies, will be open for public comment for three months before the government publishes draft legislation.
Britain will consider imposing financial penalties similar to those in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which permit fines of up to 4% of a company’s annual worldwide revenue, Wright said. In extreme cases, the government may also seek the power to fine individual company directors and prevent companies from operating in the U.K.
After the March 15 mosque shootings that killed 50 and wounded of 50 more, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner wants his country to follow Australia’s lead. British Home Secretary Sajid Javid, whose department collaborated on the U.K. proposal unveiled Monday, criticized tech firms for failing to act despite repeated calls for action against harmful content.Critics say the end result could be that Google and Facebook end up becoming the web’s censors. Others suggested the rules could stifle innovation and strengthen the dominance of technology giants because smaller firms won’t have the money to comply with such regulation.
“Issuing large fines and hitting companies with bigger legal threats is taking a 20th century bullwhip approach to a problem that requires a nuanced solution,” he said. “It needs machine learning tools to manage the 21st century problems of the internet, combined with the courage and foresight to establish independent frameworks that preserve the freedoms societies enjoy in the physical world, as well as the online one.
def should block terrorist threat images and child abuse, but should not regulate free speech politically or in general if not harmful
How 'bout y'all start with 'commonsense' knife control. It worked with guns? Look it how London's murder rate plummeted.
SBFNC UK has retained their common sense. Regulations are an essential part of a free society.
You would think they would go after people who posted the content they don’t like but no let’s just go after the company. Who cares about someone threatening to take action as long as Facebook and Twitter block it we are good? We have become dumber across the world!
good
LukieBoxing Why block it when you can use it to identify perpetrators?
Love it!
A knee-jerk reaction for fascists is to ban anything they dislike. Liberals have yet to hear about freedom of speech, think censoring makes it all go away. Pathetic slow thinkers.
GOVT owned - and spied thru- social media...thx, but...Ill have no part of that. I agree w the idea that oversight is needed. BUT NO THANKS.
UK wants to ban information it doesn't agree with
Do it.
Don’t be fooled, the UK wants to squash free speech. God help anyone talking ill about Islam or using an incorrect pronoun.
We need this for these mass murderers.
Great. Elect a populist right-wing government and let them go to town.
but no one thinks that promoting child abuse or blowing up things should be legal just making that even more obvious.
Oh look they started the 'thought police' already ! In no time they will also remove any content critical of the state
The UK has bigger, self inflicted problems
as long as they are talking about terrorist attacks and child abuse that is fine but when they start trying to push thought control people need to push back against the government.
Who decides who’s a terrorist and what is propaganda?
U.S needs to do the same with white nationalist terrorist propaganda.
Or anyone who says anything bad about Islam. You left that part out.
Good .. zucker is a ...
How about blocking Russian Trolls pushing them into an unplanned and chaotic Brexit that would tank their economy?
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