One of the more perplexing provisions of the draft Online Safety Bill is its multi-level definition of legal but harmful content (lawful but awful content, to give it its colloquial name).
The proposal that service providers’ safety duties under the Bill should apply to such content is in itself...
One of the more perplexing provisions of the draft Online Safety Bill is its multi-level definition of legal but harmful content (lawful but awful content, to give it its colloquial name).
The proposal that service providers’ safety duties under the Bill should apply to such content is in itself...
Two years on from the April 2019 Online Harms White Paper, the government has published its draft Online Safety Bill. It is a hefty beast: 133 pages and 141 sections. It raises a slew of questions, not least around press and journalistic material and the newly-coined “content of democratic...
For years, the Russian government has been putting in place the technological and legal infrastructure to clamp down on freedom of speech online, leading to frequent predictions that the country could be heading toward internet censorship akin to China’s great firewall. But despite an entire...
Russian authorities are escalating pressure on social media companies, forcing them to censor online content deemed illegal by the government, according to Human Rights Watch. Social media platforms have received warnings and face fines and potential blocking for failure to comply with Russia’s...
Google opened a centre to tackle harmful online content, in a move also designed to ease regulatory concerns about how the company and other tech giants police a growing problem on the internet. Read more on Reuters.
So that's the price of a US trade deal. The authorities from the other side of the pond have made it clear what they're looking for as the UK enters its last week of being properly within the EU. From Mediapost.
Attempts to rein in the internet will take a step closer later this month when the UK government gives its official response to its Online Harms White Paper published in April 2019. The government's move - one of the first by the new Conservative administration - comes after it received over 2,000...
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the US Congress this spring he insisted he was not running a media company. But it is getting easier to say why he does. Facebook, the site Mr Zuckerberg founded almost 15 years ago, hosts and produces content. From The Guardian.
A top Russian official has said the government will do its best to defend the internet giant Yandex, which is reportedly under pressure from security services to hand over its encryption keys. From The Moscow Times.