I wonder if this could extend to advertising .. you know. Gambling and wot not
Surely there is a law already for that. They just want the online platforms to be responsible, in which case they will start blocking everything with AI that has even the slightest hint of banned content.
Does this apply to direct encrypted content too? I hope Whatsapp and others pull out of the UK, rather than snoop on our messages.
About time!!! Twitter is swamped with youngsters self harming and sharing photos/videos of it.
It should be, so many teenagers killed themselves because another said they should, hell I’m guilty in this on some of my past comments on this very subreddit.
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Problem is, You will never be able to enforce it, certainly a dumb kid that doesn’t know their social media and comments are being tracked will get the shit end of the stick, for others? they have other accounts for a reason.
And what exactly will constitute ‘encouraging’ self harm? This is very dangerous and seems to be worded extremely vaguely.
Well I still think this Online Safety Bill is a bad idea, but they do need to do something about the sheer amount of material the encourages self harm online and how online platforms barely lift a finger to do anything about it.
More draconian laws being snuck through under the pretence of “Won’t somebody think of the children!”, no doubt.
Okay now what am I gonna say when I’m losing on call of duty?!
Sounds like a fantasy land these politicians want from the internet. There’s always web searches, when social media “fails”. If someone wants to look up self-harm, they will find it all over the internet. No legislation is going to stamp out the ills of the internet without deep censorship, a la China’s “firewall”.
Except this girl wasn’t “encouraged” to self harm. She was purposely seeking out those edgy tumblr girl posts and images. No person or entity was encouraging her to do what she did; she was already planning on doing it.
I had an abusive ex girlfriend who I grew to despise more than words can describe but she used to threaten to kill herself every time I tried to break up with her does that mean it would be illegal for telling her to go ahead in today’s world?
I wonder what would happen if they put this much effort into actually understanding and helping the causes of self harm? But of course that would require money, training and may even assist people. And we can’t have that can we?
Instead we have this which won’t work at all.
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What actually counts as encouraging it? I have a history of self harm and personally haven’t been encouraged to do it. This seems quite short sighted to me, it going to target mentally ill people talking about self harm.
This is absolutely necessary. If people go around encouraging everyone to self-harm, there’ll be no one left for the government to kill.
I remember when I got banned from Twitter for telling. Someone to ‘fuck themselves’ as it was encouraging self harm lol
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I wonder if this could extend to advertising .. you know. Gambling and wot not
Surely there is a law already for that. They just want the online platforms to be responsible, in which case they will start blocking everything with AI that has even the slightest hint of banned content.
Does this apply to direct encrypted content too? I hope Whatsapp and others pull out of the UK, rather than snoop on our messages.
About time!!! Twitter is swamped with youngsters self harming and sharing photos/videos of it.
It should be, so many teenagers killed themselves because another said they should, hell I’m guilty in this on some of my past comments on this very subreddit.
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Problem is, You will never be able to enforce it, certainly a dumb kid that doesn’t know their social media and comments are being tracked will get the shit end of the stick, for others? they have other accounts for a reason.
And what exactly will constitute ‘encouraging’ self harm? This is very dangerous and seems to be worded extremely vaguely.
Well I still think this Online Safety Bill is a bad idea, but they do need to do something about the sheer amount of material the encourages self harm online and how online platforms barely lift a finger to do anything about it.
More draconian laws being snuck through under the pretence of “Won’t somebody think of the children!”, no doubt.
Okay now what am I gonna say when I’m losing on call of duty?!
Sounds like a fantasy land these politicians want from the internet. There’s always web searches, when social media “fails”. If someone wants to look up self-harm, they will find it all over the internet. No legislation is going to stamp out the ills of the internet without deep censorship, a la China’s “firewall”.
Except this girl wasn’t “encouraged” to self harm. She was purposely seeking out those edgy tumblr girl posts and images. No person or entity was encouraging her to do what she did; she was already planning on doing it.
I had an abusive ex girlfriend who I grew to despise more than words can describe but she used to threaten to kill herself every time I tried to break up with her does that mean it would be illegal for telling her to go ahead in today’s world?
I wonder what would happen if they put this much effort into actually understanding and helping the causes of self harm? But of course that would require money, training and may even assist people. And we can’t have that can we?
Instead we have this which won’t work at all.
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What actually counts as encouraging it? I have a history of self harm and personally haven’t been encouraged to do it. This seems quite short sighted to me, it going to target mentally ill people talking about self harm.
This is absolutely necessary. If people go around encouraging everyone to self-harm, there’ll be no one left for the government to kill.
I remember when I got banned from Twitter for telling. Someone to ‘fuck themselves’ as it was encouraging self harm lol