The UK government revealed on Monday a policy paper on online harm, which sets out new regulations for the world's biggest tech companies.
The UK government revealed on Monday a policy paper on"online harm," which sets out groundbreaking new regulations for the world's biggest tech companies.
The paper's definition of harmful content is broad, ranging from terrorist content, to images of self-abuse, and child sexual exploitation. Some of the punishments will be"core powers" given to a new independent regulator. However, the paper also lays out several more extreme punitive measures which the government is considering.
The first is the ability to force third-party companies to shut down anything which,"directly or indirectly facilitates access" to content from a website that's in breach. This means if a website flouted new rules, the regulator could make Google downgrade search its results.The regulator might also be given the power to pressure firms that run app stores — namely Apple and Google — to delist or deprioritise apps that feature harmful content in some way.
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