New UK legislation to control the wild west of the digital world is overdue, and tech corporations must take more responsibility
“No one in the world has done this before,” Jeremy Wright, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, said of the government’s newly launched internet regulations. “And it’s important that we get it right.” Perhaps because Wright has kept a low profile in the recent, psychedelic months of government, it sounded like the first mature and reasonable thing I had heard from a minister in a long time.
Sajid Javid, meanwhile, gave this pugilistic description of the same white paper: “I’m giving tech companies a message that they cannot ignore. I warned you and you didn’t do enough. It’s not controversial, it’s not authoritarian … right now we’re failing. [Children] leave behind their protection and supervision when they go online to a place that is a hunting ground for monsters.”
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