Censorship or common sense?

[justasking111]

Regulations proposed by the UK government to limit the spread of 'harmful' content could lead to the lawful speech of millions being censored, civil rights groups warn.

The chiefs of five prominent organisations have spoken out about their issues with the Online Harms White Paper, issued on Monday, in an open letter to the Guardian.

Experts say that the report, which proposes taking sites offline to UK citizens if they fall foul of new regulators, would be 'disastrous if it proceeds in its current form.'

The white paper also suggests levying massive fines on companies like Facebook and Google and their employees if they fail to meet up to regulatory requirements.

It's part of an effort to crack down on the spread of child abuse images, terrorism, revenge pornography and hate crime online.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6911749/Proposed-internet-regulations-censor-speech-millions-experts-warn.html

Article in the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/10/internet-regulation-proposals-could-censor-the-lawful-speech-of-millions

Well, if it is going to crack down on child abuse, terrorism, revenge porn and hate crime, it is hardly going to censor the lawful speech of millions, is it?

Avento - so why are folk so taxed by it, if it only cracks down on stuff that is already covered by our laws.

I thought I saw a MNguest/sponsored thread about this, but it seems to have vanished.

I think it wouid be considerably more effective to prove computer-literacy enerally, and to work on changing societal attitudes so that parents simply do not leave DC alone on line, any more than they wouid leave them alone in any public place packed with strangers.

The sheer amount of material on the internet means that measures are likely to be inadequate, and that brings a new risk of complacency if anyone relies on it. And digital natives, certainly by the teen years and quite probably much younger, will be able to circumvent just about anything.