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UK Minister: Jail Social Media Bosses Who Fail to Censor ‘Harmful’ Content
Breitbart ^ | 04/20/2023 | PETER CADDLE

Posted on 04/20/2023 9:21:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Social media bosses who fail to censor “harmful” content on their sites should be jailed, plans announced by a UK minister have stipulated.

Technology and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan has announced plans to see social media executives thrown in jail should they fail to censor so-called “harmful” content on their websites.

The jail threat is to be part of the UK’s Online Safety Bill, a widespread censorship plan that some tech giants claim will also effectively ban end-to-end encryption for private internet users.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bosses; britain; greatbritain; harmfulcontent; minister; socialmedia; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 04/20/2023 9:21:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Harmful to who? Or is it whom?


2 posted on 04/20/2023 9:22:24 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is the arbiter of what is or isn’t?


3 posted on 04/20/2023 9:23:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Politicians need to be gaoled for being antithetical to the publik welfare.


4 posted on 04/20/2023 9:23:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No way to know what “Harmfull” is to each individual person.

Harmfull to one person is the truth to another.


5 posted on 04/20/2023 9:26:12 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: ChicagoConservative27
> Social media bosses who fail to censor “harmful” content on their sites should be jailed… <

This is nothing new. The two gentlemen pictured below pioneered the concept 90 years ago. Funny how most wokesters can’t see that.


6 posted on 04/20/2023 9:26:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Speak the truth about moe-ham-head, the pedophile prophet, and get beheaded in prison.


7 posted on 04/20/2023 9:27:39 AM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And she is in the “Conservative” party.


8 posted on 04/20/2023 9:34:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That would mean jailing all owners and managers at Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and many more.

But, by harmful, the UK minister likely wants his side to be the interpreter and arbitrator and monitor of what’s harmful. Fairness would dictate that, all sides view and decide what’s harmful to their sides. In that case,there would be no social media sites left on the internet.


9 posted on 04/20/2023 9:39:28 AM PDT by adorno
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Fakeservative Party rules in the UK the Lavatories.

And yeah the Labor Party waiting in the wings is just as Soviet in their thinking.

And all the while the British government-media propaganda machine decries the evils of Vladimir Putin in Russia.


10 posted on 04/20/2023 9:48:40 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

George Orwell, call your office.


11 posted on 04/20/2023 10:02:50 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Or, just block access for Brits to those social media sites and instead give them a message when they try to login that their government is a tyranny, so they can’t use the site until they clean that mess up.


12 posted on 04/20/2023 10:36:52 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: blackdog

Considering their “preferred pronouns”, you might have to ask “harmful to what?”


13 posted on 04/20/2023 10:37:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And this is the so called Conservative Party.


14 posted on 04/20/2023 11:46:38 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The UK has a “Conservative” government.


15 posted on 04/21/2023 9:11:58 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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