Suddenly Seen
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smokingbootThe wrath of Elon Musk has been a bit of a puzzle. Why has he suddenly taken on about a crime investigation that sufficed for several UK governments over 10 years? Did he think they were all hiding something? If the Conservative government was fine with the results of that investigation, why is Elon having a problem now? The timing is interesting. Turns out there's this (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer) or for those who can't be linking all over the place, some quotes:
The Online Safety Act 2023 is a new set of laws that protects children and adults online. It puts a range of new duties on social media companies and search services, making them more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms. The Act will give providers new duties to implement systems and processes to reduce risks their services are used for illegal activity, and to take down illegal content when it does appear.
[...] On 16 December 2024 Ofcom published its policy statement about protecting people from illegal harms online, alongside draft codes of practice which were laid in Parliament on the same day. Ofcom also published its illegal content risk assessment guidance, meaning that in-scope service providers will have three months to assess the risks of illegal content appearing on their service. We expect the illegal content duties to be in effect from early 2025, and Ofcom can then start to enforce against the regime.
[...] Ofcom has published draft guidance about use of age assurance to prevent children accessing online pornography. The consultation on this closed on 5 March 2024 and we expect the final guidance to be published in January 2025. The corresponding duty in the Act (section 81) is scheduled to come into force on 17 January 2025.
[...]Ofcom has also published draft codes of practice and guidance about protecting children from harmful content such as promotion of self-harm or suicide. The consultation on these closed on 17 July 2024. Platforms will have to risk assess for harms to children from Spring 2025.
There's more. It's worth reading in its entirety, but here's another interesting chunk:
The kinds of illegal content and activity that platforms need to protect users from are set out in the Act, and this includes content relating to:
child sexual abuse
controlling or coercive behaviour
extreme sexual violence
extreme pornography
fraud
racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
inciting violence
illegal immigration and people smuggling
promoting or facilitating suicide
intimate image abuse
selling illegal drugs or weapons
sexual exploitation
terrorism
Where exactly would this place EM regarding the responsibility to curate and remove examples of the above from the X platform?
No wonder he's giving us such voluble demonstrations of, I don't know, reasons to despise/ignore the laws of the UK. He needs to resist the above without looking like an enabler of the most heinous behaviour. And how can he do that?
There is method in the musk-rat's madness.
The Online Safety Act 2023 is a new set of laws that protects children and adults online. It puts a range of new duties on social media companies and search services, making them more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms. The Act will give providers new duties to implement systems and processes to reduce risks their services are used for illegal activity, and to take down illegal content when it does appear.
[...] On 16 December 2024 Ofcom published its policy statement about protecting people from illegal harms online, alongside draft codes of practice which were laid in Parliament on the same day. Ofcom also published its illegal content risk assessment guidance, meaning that in-scope service providers will have three months to assess the risks of illegal content appearing on their service. We expect the illegal content duties to be in effect from early 2025, and Ofcom can then start to enforce against the regime.
[...] Ofcom has published draft guidance about use of age assurance to prevent children accessing online pornography. The consultation on this closed on 5 March 2024 and we expect the final guidance to be published in January 2025. The corresponding duty in the Act (section 81) is scheduled to come into force on 17 January 2025.
[...]Ofcom has also published draft codes of practice and guidance about protecting children from harmful content such as promotion of self-harm or suicide. The consultation on these closed on 17 July 2024. Platforms will have to risk assess for harms to children from Spring 2025.
There's more. It's worth reading in its entirety, but here's another interesting chunk:
The kinds of illegal content and activity that platforms need to protect users from are set out in the Act, and this includes content relating to:
child sexual abuse
controlling or coercive behaviour
extreme sexual violence
extreme pornography
fraud
racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
inciting violence
illegal immigration and people smuggling
promoting or facilitating suicide
intimate image abuse
selling illegal drugs or weapons
sexual exploitation
terrorism
Where exactly would this place EM regarding the responsibility to curate and remove examples of the above from the X platform?
No wonder he's giving us such voluble demonstrations of, I don't know, reasons to despise/ignore the laws of the UK. He needs to resist the above without looking like an enabler of the most heinous behaviour. And how can he do that?
There is method in the musk-rat's madness.
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