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[Deleted]March 17, 2022(Edited March 17, 2022)

Social media giants will be told to focus on rooting out racist abuse and trolling rather than debates on trans rights

What is trolling? How the politicians decide what is trolling? Can anyone we dislike be accused of trolling and therefore get removed?

ministers are drawing up a list of “priority” harms that companies will be required to seek out

Who guarantees that gender ideology won't end up on that "priority list" and therefore forbid everyone from pointing out its harm?

Measures to ensure journalism by recognised media outlets is not taken down will be added to the bill later

So, only allowed media outlets then? Ok.

after a year of intense debate over whether it strikes the right balance between making the internet safer for children and the vulnerable and protecting free speech

The holy grails that none of those politicians live up to.

“that the bill will give people like Mark Zuckerberg and Nick Clegg unlimited power to decide what is and isn’t acceptable to say online”, but she insists this already happens. (...) she wrote that Silicon Valley is able to “decide who gets to speak online, and who is silenced or cancelled from public life”.

That's true.

She claimed that the revamped bill would introduce “considerably stronger protections for free speech”.

We'll see.

narrow the scope of “legal but harmful” material, which companies will be held accountable for, by setting a “priority” list of topics.

I'm not american british, so I'm ignorant on this, but isn't racism or racial insult already a crime? At least where I live this is already illegal. Maybe they should change that, if it isn't illegal already, instead of relying on big tech to do so.

Though not expected to remove legal material that is not on the priority list, companies will still be told to report it to Ofcom, and ministers will reserve powers to add emerging harms to the banned list.

So, woke ministers will eventually add the TRA rhetoric to that list and we will end up on a much worse situation than now. Ok, got it.

Some campaigners fear the bill will give too much power to politicians and result in a “Whac-a-Mole” approach to taking down harmful material

Can they remove things from that list? It would be hilarious to see topics being added by conservative politicians, removed by woke politicians and vice versa.

“Rather than trying to ban or delete every piece of potentially harmful content, the bill must protect free speech by tackling Big Tech platforms’ business models that rely on amplifying sensational and extreme content to large numbers of people.”

Interesting idea, then big tech just lobby this idea out and that's it.

Dorries promised “extra protections” for journalists

The cursed word.

The bill does give people the right to appeal if posts about “important democratic content” are taken down.

What is "important democratic content"? Who decides what is "important democratic content"? Who guarantees that when that happens and people (who?) appeal, a politician from the opposite side won't simply sit on the appeal until it is forgotten?

I'm sorry for the dismembering of the article, but I'm very sceptical of governments, especially when it involves big tech.

Edit: I thought it was on the USA. xD

MadSeaMarch 17, 2022

I just caught another 30 day Fb ban for saying things that are true. I get banned within a week of being back every time. I have zero faith they’ll remedy this. Meanwhile the TRAs say some of the most vile stuff and are never against their supposed “community standards.”

Carrots90March 16, 2022

They talk about censorship of speech but still allow porn to flash on the screen with the wrong Google search

I don’t believe they will protect our right to protest, or to say men aren’t women