UK. The authorities say they want published for malicious content on their platforms in a new position paper circulated Monday to keep social media executives personally responsible, reports AFP. The white paper just released online Harms provides guidance, the spread of violent content, the suicide of encouragement, misinformation and cyber-bullying and requirements for attacking companies, to act to terrorist content to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and offensive content, the rules also require an independent body of rules, the rules are set force. “It has to start responsibility for their online business platforms, and helps public confidence in this technology to restore” the prime minister Theresa May said in a statement. The measures would apply to social media, file hosting sites, chat forums, messaging, and search engine services. Companies have to provide severe penalties under the proposed measures, if they do not meet. “We must be given substantial fines on advisory powers, blocks access to sites and potentially responsible for individual members of the Board to impose,” the government said in its statement. Continue reading: WhatsApp has a new security feature in an attack on Crackdown added disinformation While experts believe that this is a step in the right direction, the implementation, the policy can not be easy. “It would be a standardized cross-platform cooperation code of conduct in the promotion of value, but the proposals raise a number of practical issues that drafted will still need,” Stuart Macdonald, cyber-terrorism expert and professor of law at the University of Swansea, tells TIME. “For example, the regulatory approach is different for smaller technology companies, the lack of which is exploited for the ability of terrorist groups?” Social media regulatory renewed attention was recovered in recent weeks in 17 minutes in the New Zealand deadly mosque shootout live stream on Facebook before the company removed. Other social media sites to block encrypted as Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit, and to delete the video uploaded copies as versions of users has gone viral. Other countries have taken steps to online content after the attack of New Zealand to adjust. Last week, lawmakers in Australia adopted a new law for social media account, which is shared on their platforms. Picture copyright by Getty Images
UK. The authorities propose social media executives personally responsible for harmful content
