One thing I've sometimes seen on HN is a misunderstanding of law vs light touch regulation.
If you live in an oppressive regime they tell you what you're allowed to do and everything else is banned.
If you don't live in an oppressive regime they have a set of behaviours that they'll claim are unambiguously bad, which they criminalise. But there's a gap between the stuff that criminalised and the stuff that's perfectly fine. In this fuzzy border the government is saying "this stuff is possibly okay, or possibly harmful, but we're not going to criminalise it until we get better evidence or until the voters tell us to. We expect you to behave in a socially responsible way."
Currently online services in the UK are subject to light-touch regulation. This means that they need to take some social responsibility for the content and set their own limits.
They also show that they haven't learnt the lesson of GDPR.
Online services need to set sensible limits to what they allow on their platforms or UK government will happily impose onerous burdensome regulation upon them.
This is a slow process but online services need to make sure they're not mistaking "slow" for "won't happen".
If you live in an oppressive regime they tell you what you're allowed to do and everything else is banned.
If you don't live in an oppressive regime they have a set of behaviours that they'll claim are unambiguously bad, which they criminalise. But there's a gap between the stuff that criminalised and the stuff that's perfectly fine. In this fuzzy border the government is saying "this stuff is possibly okay, or possibly harmful, but we're not going to criminalise it until we get better evidence or until the voters tell us to. We expect you to behave in a socially responsible way."
Currently online services in the UK are subject to light-touch regulation. This means that they need to take some social responsibility for the content and set their own limits.
They also show that they haven't learnt the lesson of GDPR.
Online services need to set sensible limits to what they allow on their platforms or UK government will happily impose onerous burdensome regulation upon them.
This is a slow process but online services need to make sure they're not mistaking "slow" for "won't happen".