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| Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:07pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
UK The government has proposed measures to regulate social media companies over harmful content, including "substantial" fines and the ability to block services that do not stick to the rules. It will run a consultation until 1 July on plans to create a legal "duty of care towards users", overseen by an independent regulator. At the moment, when it comes to graphic content, social media largely relies on self-governance. Sites such as YouTube and Facebook have their own rules about what is unacceptable and the way that users are expected to behave towards one another. This includes content that promotes fake news, hate speech or extremism, or could trigger or exacerbate mental health problems. Self-governance YouTube has defended its record on removing inappropriate content. The video-sharing site said that 7.8m videos were taken down between July and September 2018, with 81% of them automatically removed by machines, and three-quarters of those clips never receiving a single view. Globally, YouTube employs 10,000 people in monitoring and removing content, as well as policy development. Facebook, which owns Instagram, told the BBC that it has 30,000 people around the world working on safety and security. It said that it removed 15.4m pieces of violent content between October and December, up from 7.9m in the previous three months. Some content can be automatically detected and removed before it is seen by users. In the case of terrorist propaganda, Facebook says 99.5% of all the material taken down between July and September was done by "detection technology". If illegal content, such as "revenge pornography" or extremist material, is posted on a social media site, it will be the person who posted it, rather than the social media companies, who is most at risk of prosecution. This is a situation that needs to change, according to Culture Minister Margot James. She wants the government to bring in legislation that will force social media platforms to remove illegal content and "prioritise the protection of users, especially children, young people and vulnerable adults". So if the UK has so far mainly relied on social media platforms governing themselves, what do other countries do? Germany Germany's NetzDG law came into effect at the beginning of 2018, applying to companies with more than two million registered users in the country. They were forced to set up procedures to review complaints about content they are hosting and remove anything that is clearly illegal within 24 hours. Individuals may be fined up to €5m ($5.6m; £4.4m) and companies up to €50m for failing to comply with these requirements. In the first year of the new law there were reported to have been 714 complaints from users who said that online platforms had not deleted or blocked illegal content within the statutory period. The Federal Ministry of Justice confirmed to the BBC that the figure had been considerably below the 25,000 complaints a year it had been expecting and that there have been no fines issued so far. European Union The EU is considering a clampdown, specifically on terror videos. Social media platforms would face fines if they did not delete extremist content within an hour. The EU also introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which set rules on how companies, including social media platforms, store and use people's data. But it is another proposed directive that has worried internet companies. Article 13 of the copyright directive would put the responsibility on platforms to make sure that copyright infringing content is not hosted on their sites. Previous legislation has only required the platforms to take down such content if it is pointed out to them. Shifting the responsibility would be a big deal for social media companies. Australia Australia passed the Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material Act on 5 April, introducing criminal penalties for social media companies, possible jail sentences for tech executives for up to three years and financial penalties worth up to 10% of a company's global turnover. It followed the live-streaming of the New Zealand shootings on Facebook. In 2015, the Enhancing Online Safety Act created an eSafety Commissioner with the power to demand that social media companies take down harassing or abusive posts. Last year, the powers were expanded to include revenge porn. The eSafety Commissioner's office can issue companies with 48-hour "takedown notices", and fines of up to 525,000 Australian dollars (£285,000). But it can also fine individuals up to A$105,000 for posting the content. The legislation was introduced after the death of Charlotte Dawson, a TV presenter and a judge on Australia's Next Top Model, who killed herself in 2014 following a campaign of cyber-bullying against her on Twitter. She had a long history of depression. Cardboard cut-outs were used at demonstrations over Facebook in Washington and Brussels last year Russia Under Russia's data laws from 2015, social media companies are required to store any data about Russians on servers within the country. Its communications watchdog is taking action against Facebook and Twitter for not being clear about how they planned to comply with this. Russia is also considering two laws similar to Germany's example, requiring platforms to take down offensive material within 24 hours of being alerted to it and imposing fines on companies that fail to do so. China Sites such as Twitter, Google and WhatsApp are blocked in China. Their services are provided instead by Chinese applications such as Weibo, Baidu and WeChat. Chinese authorities have also had some success in restricting access to the virtual private networks that some users have employed to bypass the blocks on sites. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced at the end of January that in the previous six months it had closed 733 websites and "cleaned up" 9,382 mobile apps, although those are more likely to be illegal gambling apps or copies of existing apps being used for illegal purposes than social media. China has hundreds of thousands of cyber-police, who monitor social media platforms and screen messages that are deemed to be politically sensitive. Some keywords are automatically censored outright, such as references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. New words that are seen as being sensitive are added to a long list of censored words and are either temporarily banned, or are filtered out from social platforms. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47135058 1 Like |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:08pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
USA Regulation is inevitable These and other socially destabilizing behaviours have brought us to the point where even U.S. tech companies, strident libertarians, have resigned themselves to the fact that greater government regulation is inevitable. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said in November 2018 that “the free market is not working” in regards to regulating tech companies’ use of personal data, and that government regulation is “inevitable.” The form that this government regulation may take will be a critical debate in 2019. A new year offers a fresh start for thinking about how best to regulate social media companies’ use of personal data. Calls to regulate social media companies are now coming from scholars and politicians. In December 2018, Canada’s federal Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics proposed tough new rules on political advertisements on social media. But what should these rules look like and what should they address? As researchers studying internet governance and the regulation of personal data, we identify two elements are at the heart of the social media problem. First, if, as commonly argued, social media platforms are our contemporary town squares, they are being operated as for-profit enterprises dependent on the accumulation and monetization of personal data, a practice that Harvard Business School Professor Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Second, although these social media companies operate worldwide, they are based in the United States and operate through American rules and norms. The exceptions of course are China-based social media giants like WeChat and Weibo. Regulation strategies The coming year is likely to see many debates on possible regulatory strategies. We offer several ideas to help shape those debates. First, it’s necessary to prohibit the data-intensive, micro-targeted advertising-dependent business model that is at the heart of the problem. In line with what the Public Policy Forum has recommended, reforms in this area should eliminate incentives for the collection and hoarding of data for purposes unrelated to delivering services. As the search engine DuckDuckGo demonstrates, advertising-based business models need not rely upon selling detailed data profiles of customers. DuckDuckGo relies upon advertising keywords based on users’ search queries but, unlike Google, it does not collect data on its users. Second, it’s vital that countries craft rules that are appropriate to their particular domestic social, legal and political contexts. A common criticism is that this is a form of state censorship. But all speech is subject to some form of regulation, such as the prohibition of hate speech. Domestically crafted legislation recognizes that Canada and Germany regulate hate speech more strictly than the United States. Globally operating tech giants tend to resist being subject to different countries’ laws, arguing that global standards are best suited to govern the internet, but these standards often reflect U.S.-style rules and norms that may conflict with local values. Third, and most provocatively, it’s time to consider non-commercial ownership of social-media entities — including non-profit or some form of public ownership. This has been recommended by several U.S. and UK scholars, as well as one of us, to replace the fundamentally flawed for-profit companies that dominate these spaces. http://theconversation.com/its-time-for-a-new-way-to-regulate-social-media-platforms-109413 Mynd44, lalasticlala can we discuss this? |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:09pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
You don't like a governor, go to Facebook, lay unfounded allegations against him and when called upon to explain, you start screaming at the top of your voice in the name of "freedom of speech". Is it that some people don't understand the meaning of the right to freedom of speech or What? Ffk will log on to his Twitter account, announce that "from his source" Buhari has sent some armed men to go and kill one christian senator, when called upon to explain, both him and some cursed animals start screaming "democracy under threat". Now to all ipob pigs who always worship the "country where things work" and at the same time prefer lying on social media, it is obvious things actually work in those countries because lies on social media are serious offences in those countries. 7 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:11pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Bros how much are they paying you? If I were you I won't accept the megre N30, 000 other BMCs are taking home. 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:14pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten: Nobody is paying me a dime. Sensible countries which you claim to look up to are doing the same thing you are against in Nigeria. Social media is like a country of its own which needs taming otherwise it will consume us all Even the USA whom a lot of you claim holds freedom of speech dearly is working on regulating same social media as my post above shows 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by aminusodiq(m): 12:16pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
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| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:18pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
[s] CaptainMeks:[/s] Why are they not copying the incredible economies of the countries you mentioned? 5 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:20pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten: Economies have nothing to do with social media regulation. Same social media is accessible for the poor and the rich so this has nothing to do with economies but rather with social content. Get some sense and stop trying to shift the goal post or do the rich have access to a special twitter or a special facebook or a special instagram from the poor? 6 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:23pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
[s] Kundagarten:[/s] Typical of them, talking orange when banana is on the table. For now, the topic is about social media regulation, which some of you claim is an abomination. 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:23pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Simplyleo: That is the fact. Rwanda is advancing greatly and peacefully now because they have successfully put serious regulations on their social media in order to avoid a repeat of their genocide occurrence of 1994 which was caused by hate speeches. That is a small country like Rwanda and then some idiots are saying that for a country as ethnically diverse and large as Nigeria we should not do same especially with the way ethnic bad blood has been brewing between Igbos, Yorubas and Hausas? https://cpj.org/reports/2014/12/legacy-of-rwanda-genocide-includes-media-restricti.php 4 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:27pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
CaptainMeks: If they can copy social media bill they can as well copy their good economy 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:29pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
[s] Simplyleo:[/s] Stop foaming in the mouth, it's too early. 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:31pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
CaptainMeks:If you watch very well, most human beans against the SM Regulation are the idiots spreading lies. If not, I don't really understand the fuse about regulating social media to stop the spread of lies. Notice omokriminal immediately claimed he has left politics when the bill started gathering momentum. He eats, drink and churn out lies. 5 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:32pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten:The point is: stick to the topic and stop runing from pillar to post. 5 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:34pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten:One at a time. And this is about the Social media regulation. You can create a thread explaining how their economy should be copied. 4 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:35pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Simplyleo: Too difficult to answer? 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:36pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
[s] Simplyleo:[/s] Is the economy not more important? 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 12:38pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten:This is about social media regulation, create a thread about "important" economy and stop derailing. 4 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:40pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten: No economy can be great in the presence of Chaos. China had to place a serious gag on her social media, today they are a world power which stands toe to toe with even USA. Think like a human and not like an animal all the time An economy can be growing side by side with a well regulated social media. 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:42pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
CaptainMeks: Why are you BMC more concerned about social media than the economy? 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by CaptainMeks: 12:45pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten: Why is the social media regulation giving you so much headache? Could it be because you are a zombified wailer? 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:47pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
CaptainMeks:Because I'm a (in sarrki's voice) patriot. 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Kundagarten: 12:47pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Just noticed CaptainMeks is same person as Simplyleo 1 Like |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by BlackfireX: 12:49pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
PDP nitwits be warned.... |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Okoroawusa: 12:50pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Simplyleo:sorry he can't help it. it's in the blood 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Social Media Needs Regulation (countries Outside Africa Speak Up) by Simplyleo: 1:01pm On Dec 10, 2019 |
Kundagarten:Topic: Social media regulation. Him: why can't Nigeria copy the US economy? Later, still in same thread: I noticed captainmejks is same person as Simplyleo. Meanwhile, they were at the top of their voice screaming "social media regulation is a tyranny". 4 Likes |
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