The Online Safety Bill has now completed its detailed scrutiny in the House of Lords and we have a new version that we can expect…
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There is a lot happening at the moment to focus minds on the subject online content moderation. The EU has a new law coming into…
1 CommentIt has been a while since I added a new post to this blog as I have been focused more on the spoken than the…
Leave a CommentGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has attracted a lot of (mostly favourable) attention for criticising the recent removal of Donald Trump’s social media accounts. As it…
8 CommentsSummary :- I explore the power of platforms to ‘eject’ people from their services following recent decisions about President Trump’s accounts.
Leave a CommentSummary :- this post describes a model for ‘Harm Reduction Plans’. Platforms would create these documents to explain how they are responding to specific harms. They would be provided to regulators and form part of any new oversight mechanism.
Leave a CommentIf you live in the UK you will likely have been amused by a video produced by the comedian Matt Lucas sending up the Government’s…
1 CommentSummary :- there is increasing political interest in the UK in legislation to tackle anti-vax content online.
We need to invest time in understanding types of anti-vax content and how this could be treated before rushing into creating new enforcement mechanisms.
The role of platforms in moderating content is a frequent topic of my posts, but it is important also to consider the ways in which…
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