'Online closed groups are normalising extremism and hate.'
Labour's @LucyMPowell wants to tackle online hate, fake news and radicalisation by introducing a new bill to stop people using closed forums on social media.
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"They're are normalising extremism and hate"
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Replying to @SkyNews @LucyMPowell
While I agree with her points, censorship is never the answer. Education is.
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Replying to @KianGriffin @SkyNews
It’s not censorship. Our newspapers and broadcasters are held to high standards, without censorship, social media publishers should be held to similar standards.
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You’re talking about stopping people being able to form private groups online, though. How is that different from banning free association irl? It’s just not the same as publishing. And presumably this would need to cover e.g. WhatsApp groups of MPs to be consistent
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No, what’s I’ve proposed is standards and accountability covering groups over a certain size, at least 500 could be more, as publishers. And banning completely secret groups of a certain size, but this doesn’t mean publishing all the members names just name and size of group.
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