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Social media : How can governenments regulate it? (2.Self-governance ( UK)…
Social media : How can governenments regulate it?
1.measures to regulate social media companies
graphic content : self-governance
YT and FCB have their own rules
to create a legal "duty of care towards users",
fake news, hate speech or extremism
ability to block services
mental health problems
"substantial" fines
2.Self-governance ( UK)
30,000 people : working on safety and security
removed 15.4m pieces of violent content
employs people : monitoring and removing content
be automatically detected and removed
3/4 of those clips never receiving a single view.
terrorist propaganda : detection technology
videos were taken down
illegal content : the person who posted it
YouTube has defended its record
situation that needs to change : SM to remove illegal content
3.Germany
fined up to €5m
1 year of the new law : complaints
remove illegal content within 24h
not deleted llegal content within the statutory period.
procedures to review complaints
new law: + than 2 million registered users in the country.
4.European Union
responsibility to make sure that copyright infringing content is not hosted on their sites.
to take down such content if it is pointed out to them
set rules : store and use people's data.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
big deal for social media companies
fines : not delete extremist content within an hour
a clampdown: terror videos.
7.China
Cyberspace Administration of China
be illegal gambling apps or copies of existing apps being used for illegal purposes than social media.
restricting access to the virtual private networks
cyber-police : monitor/ screen messages
Weibo, Baidu and WeChat.
Twitter, Google and WhatsApp are blocked in China
keywords are automatically censored outright
5.Australia
48-hour "takedown notices"fines of up to 525,000 Australian dollars
The legislation : after the death of Charlotte Dawson
Last year : to include revenge porn.
following a campaign of cyber-bullying against her on Twitter
2015 : take down harassing or abusive posts
criminal penalties, possible jail sentences, financial penalties
Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act
6.Russia
24 hours/ fines
wo laws similar to Germany's example
store any data about Russians on servers within the country.
FCB AND TWIT for not being clear about how they planned to comply with this.
communications watchdog