𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.au to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 22 days agoBill to require licencing to operate social media websitesbills.parliament.ukexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkBill to require licencing to operate social media websitesbills.parliament.uk𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.au to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·22 days agowtf is this trash? I’ve only read Canadian bills but this looks like amateur work. Where are the definitions? How the hell are they supposed to regulate Social Media Websites without defining them or referencing the legislation that defines them?
minus-squareFarceOfWill@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·22 days agoIts a members bill, its not expected to pass. Id love to know who put them up to it though
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·22 days agoIt’s section 3: For the purposes of this Act, a “social media platform” means a platform which— (a) has the sole or significant purpose of enabling users to create, share, discover or consume user-generated content; (b) enables users to discover, interact with or follow the content or accounts of users other than those with whom they communicate privately.
minus-squareabbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·22 days agoOh fuck off with this horseshit
wtf is this trash? I’ve only read Canadian bills but this looks like amateur work. Where are the definitions? How the hell are they supposed to regulate Social Media Websites without defining them or referencing the legislation that defines them?
Its a members bill, its not expected to pass. Id love to know who put them up to it though
News Corp.
It’s section 3:
Oh fuck off with this horseshit