The UK passed a broad Online Safety Bill that included massive amounts of rules on social media companies, leaving them legally responsible for material that makes it onto their systems. Age-inappropriate content must be locked down to prevent kids from viewing. Trolling and cyber-bully crackdowns are coming. Issues from misogyny but not misandry, disordered eating, illegal drugs, self-harm, and so forth. But there are also broad brush strokes like terrorism or selling weapons, and ending encryption of messages. Punishment includes fines up to 10% of global annual revenue, and also jailtime for executives. These companies are quickly turning into censorship police, an extension of the government, and that’s chilling. No matter how it sounds now, it will be you someday…
Britain’s parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill, a strict and extremely divisive content moderation law.
Found at thenextweb.com
