Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry
Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation Tweets: @tim , @matthewlesh , @martinsfp , @jimkillock , @webdevlaw , @sjhmorris , @utilit_aria , @muradahmed , @rasmus_kleis , @pmdfoster , @dom_hallas , and @daveleeft Tweets: Tim Bradshaw / @tim : NEW: UK home sec Priti Patel wants internet companies to proactively monitor for “legal but harmful” content, pitching an update to Online Safety bill that the industry fears would threaten their liability protections - FT scoop w/@pmdfoster @JasmineCC_95 https://t.co/7Xm3li41op Matthew Lesh / @matthewlesh : The Home Office explicitly wants tech companies to proactively monitor and censor legal speech. This is frightening totalitarianism. https://www.ft.com/... Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp : Things like this are either well-meaning but poorly thought through, or deliberately designed to allow creeping authoritarianism over time. Whichever it really is, I wish they'd cut it out. https://twitter.com/... Jim Killock / @jimkillock : Priti knows what's best for us. Companies must trawl, find, censor legal content in the #OnlineSafetyBill https://www.ft.com/... Heather Burns / @webdevlaw : I feel sorry for journos who are editorially required to use phrases such as “Silicon Valley giants” and “like Facebook and Google” to describe rules impacting the entire open web and oh BTW, the Home Office is demanding the suppression of legal content. https://www.ft.com/... Stephen Morris / @sjhmorris : Good https://twitter.com/... Aria Babu / @utilit_aria : The Government: Free speech is literally the most important thing and if we don't protect it western civilisation will literally collapse Also the government: If you let someone else say something rude on the internet, we will fine you billions of pounds https://twitter.com/... Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : Big move. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel demand new powers to require internet companies to proactively monitor for “legal but harmful” user content. A radical departure from rules policing the world's biggest technology companies - by @Tim and @FT team https://www.ft.com/... Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : Chilling: “We know that there are technologies out that can do this and we want to make sure that the tech companies are doing all they can to take this content off their platforms” official says about gov' demands tech cos block ‘legal but harmful’ posts https://giftarticle.ft.com/... Peter Foster / @pmdfoster : This is causing tremors in tech industry. 👇👇 https://twitter.com/... Dom Hallas / @dom_hallas : This is dumb and dangerous on about five different levels. https://twitter.com/... Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Deja vu all over again https://twitter.com/...