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Nasty. > In the draft legislation, the U.K. government said the most popular platforms — "category one" companies like Facebook and Twitter — will be required
by nanis 5y ago
Nasty.
> In the draft legislation, the U.K. government said the most popular platforms — "category one" companies like Facebook and Twitter — will be required to safeguard all journalistic material shared on their platform.
> Posts will be deemed “journalistic content” if “the content is generated for the purposes of journalism” and “the content is U.K.-linked,” according to the draft law.
Either everyone has freedom of speech or no one does.
- dane-pgp 5y agoIndeed. The requirement that the content be "U.K.-linked" is particularly worrying, because a regulator may decide that images of British-made bombs being used in foreign war crimes is not a sufficient link, or similarly images of protesters being crushed in a country that Britain wants to do a trade deal with. Even if the politically-appointed regulator never explicitly states what bias these platforms should have, there's the danger that the platforms might pre-emptively adopt a bias as a plausibly deniable quid pro quo to avoid anti-trust investigations or a strict application of a digital services tax.