The UK wants to introduce new legislation that tackles “the Wild West elements” of the internet, particularly social media. Culture and digital minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday that new laws would be introduced “in the next couple of years” that would aim to curb a range of legal and illegal online harms, from cyberbullying to child sexual exploitation.
The legislation would be the latest attempt of the UK’s Conservative government to exercise more control over online spaces. In 2016, the party introduced new surveillance laws, mandating (among other things) that ISPs store a record of every citizen’s browser history. Other efforts have been less successful. Calls to break end-to-end encryption in services like WhatsApp seem to have…
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17375450/uk-social-media-online-safety-legislation-matt-hancock
