Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?

For most, the predominant experience of the Internet is via social platforms that have been built on top of the scaffolding of the Web and are run by companies that profit from the engagement of their users. Given that YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram are the most popular sites in a majority of the world, it follows that the predominant experience of the Internet for the many is now via content shared on platforms that allow anyone, anywhere to easily publish and distribute content. Similar to the Australian bill, the UK government points the finger of blame at the social networks for enabling the sharing of the video of the Christchurch shootings, but it casts a wider – and arguably more ambiguous – net with the categories of content that it wants to hold the tech giants responsible for.

Source: theengineeringmanager.com