So the Environmental Agency, is embarrassed to reveal the true state of our environment...
They find it difficult to answer prescient questions from NGOs with significant expertise (the implications being, better informed that the EA staff) & (it would seem) would like the NGO's Q.s to be more simply put to help EA staff offer better answers?
If you wanted a picture of a failing regulatory agency this would be it....
Ofcom and ofwat are equally useless
@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
@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
