Tech giants write to ministers to spell out views on internet regulation
In the letter, the companies outlined six principles they said regulation must conform to. They said it must:"Provide flexibility to adapt to changing technologies, different services and evolving societal expectations
The companies insist that government should"recognise the distinction between clearly illegal content and content which is harmful, but not illegal".Molly Russell's father told the BBC he believed Instagram had 'helped kill my daughter'If these leading tech companies believe this government definition of harm is too broad, their insistence on a distinction between illegal and harmful content may be superseded by another set of problems.
It is obvious that a new category of company will have to be created to accommodate the special characteristics of technology platforms that distribute, and create, vast quantities of media. Then Home Secretary Amber Rudd said at the time:"We need to make sure our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted WhatsApp."
And then there is the volume of content. YouTube is not a broadcaster, like the BBC for instance, in large part because of how much of it there is: hundreds of hours of video uploaded every minute.
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