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Just the past week: - New Yorker publishes this article - Mayor of London at SXSW called for tighter tech regulation. - UK Culture Secretary declares social
by switch007 9y ago
Just the past week:
- New Yorker publishes this article
- Mayor of London at SXSW called for tighter tech regulation.
- UK Culture Secretary declares social media "broken", states he wants to time-limit children's access to social media and "impose stricter checks on the age limits when children can first set up a social media profile"
- Tim Berners-Lee said "we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web"
- The Economist prints an article "On Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth" (reporting on a recent study by MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines)
- A report is delivered to European Commission: "Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation"
- The House of Lords International Relations Committee concluded tech firms were negatively affecting our society
Blimey...
- mattdeboard 9y agoYep, I agree. Politicians & their PR firms are getting the bee hive stirred up, swaying public opinion. It's the governmental version of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- 1337biz 9y agoHad to scroll down all the way to your comment until somebody finally gets the meta view. Just amazing how the usually brilliant minds of HN are baited into this morronic censorship discussion.
- verylittlemeat 9y ago- moral panic over video games in the news again - florida legislature declares porn a health risk rather than debate guns after school shooting