Ofcom and big tech will be told to do more,but do we want them to choose who’s allowed to say whatConsequences matter. whether there was one clear message from football’s temporary boycott of social media earlier this month, in protest at the torrent of online hate experienced disproportionately by black players, or that was it.
The former England striker Ian Wright has said that he’d nearly given up reporting the vile stuff he receives daily because nothing ever seemed to happen to the perpetrators. “It makes you feel very dehumanised. You feel like there’s nothing you can do,you’re helpless,” he said. So two cheers, or at least,for the inclusion in this weeks Queen’s speech of a long-delayed online safety bill aimed at holding big tech more accountable. Who wouldn’t agree with the culture secretary Oliver Dowden’s desire to rid social media of what he called “the bile and the threats”? Related: Online safety bill ‘a recipe for censorship’, say campaigners Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnistContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com