Watching @UKHouseofLords Comms committee hearing on internet regulation - tweetings may follow.
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There is no means of independently auditing social media companies' self-regulation - co-regulation may be the way forward. Focus tends to be quantitative (how many offensive posts taken down) than qualitative (how many takedown requests were accurate.)
Over-reliance on criminal mechanisms e.g. twitter joke trial - should we be looking at less intrusive regualtion as in self-regulation or something more industry driven like ASA, BBFC.
Framework for UK internet law is based on US CDA 1996 + EU ECD of 2000 e.g. the last millenium. The internet since then has been a large experiment in nudge regulation.
Beaufort scale of internet regulation (2008) 
Issue with 1990s terminology: ECD refers to information society services, not platforms. Not all plaforms are ISSes e.g. Uber. Perhaps time to move past traditional intermediary liability model in terms of transmission vs hosting, look systemically instead.
Martin Lewis ad suit comes up. What did I tell you.
Actual Bishop sees nothing wrong with blocking swathes of content on publication by default and leaving it for the content creator to request it be cleared, because blocking the good stuff should be the price we pay for blocking the bad.
He's just had the concept of freedom of expression explained to him.
Committee should look at venture capitalists to find out what they understand about their social responsibilities of the software and platforms they fund
Floella (Floella!) asks what can be done to encourage user responsibility. Panel feels there's poor evaluation and data of existing education programs. Someoene who's determined to bully someone will find a way of doing so on a public platform or a private channel.
A certain Baroness is that person at a conference who says they have a question and then states their meandering opinion on the subject
Platforms are responding to a perceived need to remove more content - outsourcing to cheap third world mechanical turks - incentive structure to demonstrate how much content they've removed should show examples of successful appeals to put content back online
Do we need a Sarbanes Oxley for data - shifting responsibility for data protection to named individuals in a company's leadership
Competition law is the wrong hammer to crack this nut - many small companies will not spring up as a result of overregulating the large ones
We could write our own ECD post-Brexit, which could be terrifying.
Perhaps space in the internet regulatory model for newer, smaller bodies trying to find norms or standards for mutual accountability outside any legal or cultural model
and that's enough wonking for one day.
and that's enough wonking for one day.
