U.K. lawmakers are debating the Online Safety Bill, aimed at preventing access to material that promotes eating disorders and self-harm. Companies including Meta and Alphabet would have duties to remove illegal material online, or risk heavy fines.
That’s the view espoused by some U.K. lawmakers this week, where the House of Commons is debating the Online Safety Bill. The legislation is aimed at preventing access to material that promotes eating disorders and self-harm. Companies including Meta Platforms META, -6.79% and Alphabet GOOGL, -2.51% will have duties to remove illegal material online, particularly relating to terrorism and child sexual abuse, or risk heavy fines.
“It may be a drop in the ocean to the likes of Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg—these multibillionaires who are taking over social media and using it as their personal plaything.
Even lawmakers that didn’t want technology executives jailed still expressed an interest in having their powers checked. “This loose cannon, Elon Musk, is an enormously wealthy man, and he is quite strange, isn’t he? He is intrinsically imbued with the power of Silicon Valley and those new techno-masters of the universe. We are dealing with those realities, and this bill is very imperfect,” said Julian Knight, a Conservative lawmaker.
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