Ofcom and ofwat are equally useless
Indeed I guess one example is Meta saying they are committed to user safety then reducing the age a person can join instagram from 16 to 13, despite what has happened with children such as Molly Russell who killed herself after seeing self harm / suicide content.
@Simon318ppm @zleap @ChrisMayLA6 Indeed. Regulators must be empowered to levy fines which make failing to meet obligations massively uneconomic. Without that power, regulation has no teeth.
@KimSJ @Simon318ppm @ChrisMayLA6
Report in paper today abiout some TikTok trend where people go around sucker punching (iow assault) people.
Time TinkTok was fined, those who carry out those finds are sued and ordered to pay crippling lawsuits and told to blame their own stupidity, oh and the person starting the trend should also be sued.and ordered to pay costs of BOTH sides.
If regulators can't deal with the, platforms, those causing problems should be dealt with through the civil courts.
These platforms can be a force for good, and we should
@zleap @ChrisMayLA6 indeed - I’d argue the whole system of external regulation is fundamentally flawed by design.
But especially when a) we have a government that despises any curb on business practice, however toxic, so starves regulators of the resources to function and b) there is a revolving door between the regulator and the industry they are meant to police, with staff moving seamlessly between the two