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New laws will be introduced to tackle the internet's "wild west" that will make Britain the "safest place in the world" to be online, the culture secretary has said.
Social media companies have already taken some positive steps to protect users, but the performance of the industry overall has been mixed, according to Matt Hancock.
The government outlined proposals last year to impose an industry-wide levy on social media firms like Facebook and Twitter to fund measures to tackle online harm. It is understood the move will be subject to a further round of consultation with the sector and charities before any decision is made on pushing ahead.
A new code of practice to tackle bullying, intimidating or humiliating online content and a regular internet safety transparency report to keep tabs on online abuse could be included in new legislation.
Right, show of hands, who thinks we should move our servers to the UK and stop saying mean things to each other?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 25 2018, @11:40PM (3 children)
It's not the advertising for online gambling the Swiss intend to tax, it's the online gambling itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @07:08AM (2 children)
And how will they punish the websites that don't pay the tax? By attempting to stop all Swiss citizens - whether they agree with the censorship or not - from visiting the website. Therein lies the issue.
The only saving grace here is that there will be countless ways to bypass any censorship.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 26 2018, @10:28AM (1 child)
Running an unlicensed brick-and-mortar casino is alright, but running an unlicensed casino online is censorship.
Yeah, takes quite a twist of logic for this to make sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 26 2018, @10:31AM
s/running/stoping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford