Internet Porn Site Regulation

^ Anyone think the sudden switch to attacking social media is anything to do with how influencential it has become to the outcome of elections and public opinion in general. The Conservatives are by all reports not succeeding in convincing the public to vote their way on there despite sinking large sums of money into dedicated advertising. At the same time they will not pursue Leveson 2 and curtail the standard press. Would this be because they have a huge tradition of largely favourable printed press in this country and are deeply in bed with its moguls? Control of message could be a nice apparently collateral outcome of both these ideas.

And while we are on the political favourable actions angle: I find the timing of the pushed back in AV implementation interesting. Did the government get advanced wind that the Facebook data scandal was coming? Even if the BBFC had been ready with their kitchen sink scheme it would have been far harder to say in the press 'give up your data it'll be fine' while the very next page had direct evidence of previous misuse.

(The Guardian...

A social media exec Wrote:There’s no detail on what they’re going to do... Are they going to legislate against ‘inappropriate things’? In Whitehall, it’s very difficult to sign off on something that’s not defined.

My suspicion is they’ll have 18 months of going around the houses and when they write it down they’ll find a lot of these issues don’t take well to legal definition.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...to-reality )