The UK government is planning to create a special watchdog to monitor and regulate social media activity to prevent what they deem to be harmful content
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that new legislation will be proposed to the parliament to enable the government to impose bans and fines on social media companies and technology firms if they fail to protect users from such content.
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May said “The era of social media firms regulating themselves is over” adding, “We are putting a legal duty of care on these companies to keep users safe; and if they fail to do so, tough punishments will be imposed.”
UK Media Secretary Jeremy Wright described the new regulations as the toughest in the world.
Press TV reports: If ratified, the new laws could slap big fines on social media companies. An independent regulator will be able to even held bosses of the tech companies accountable and even decide to end their operations in the UK if they do not everything reasonably practical to eradicate harmful content.
The regulations, described by Media Secretary Jeremy Wright as the toughest in the world, would apply to social media sites, discussion forums, messaging services and search engines. Wright said any company that allowed users to share or discover content or interact online would be subject to the new laws.
The new proposal comes after the death of 14-year-old schoolgirl in Britain whose family said had been caused by harmful content online on depression and suicide.
It also comes amid increased global worries about the way the social media operate, especially after a mass shooting in two mosques in New Zealand in March, which killed 50 people, was steamed live on one of the platforms of American social media giant Facebook.
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The UK is worse than communist China.
They don’t care at China if it isn’t political discussion regarding the Chinese gov’t. That’s basically how it works in the East. Unlike the West where you have to worry about discussing any of the PC subjects in public, workplace, private space (around the wrong people) or with your own name attached online.
Fuck the NWO zionists. Not long and it will make “boom”
The new NAZI’s of the western world MOSLEMS, and the 4th Reich EU are behind all of this cowardly censoring bullshit. Censoring the truth. No one gave a fuck when the sub human muzzrats were posting killings online. But as soon as a leftard knocks off a few muzzrats in their shithole of pedophilia worship, terrorism organising, and planning of western hatred, the weak cowards get scared. And there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shooting, it should happen more. I’ve watched it a few times and it gets funnier every time. I love the bit where he runs over the bitch that he just shot in the gutter as he is making his get away. All leftist politicians should be murdered violently, as well as every muzzrat and jew scum on the planet.