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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wtf is this trash? I’ve only read Canadian bills but this looks like amateur work. Where are the definitions? How the hell are they supposed to regulate Social Media Websites without defining them or referencing the legislation that defines them?

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  • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its a members bill, its not expectes to pass. Id love to know who put them up to it though

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    • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      News Corp.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s section 3:

    For the purposes of this Act, a “social media platform” means a platform which—

    (a) has the sole or significant purpose of enabling users to create, share, discover or consume user-generated content;

    (b) enables users to discover, interact with or follow the content or accounts of users other than those with whom they communicate privately.

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  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh fuck off with this horseshit

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man Brexit just keeps payin’ off

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• melvisntnormal@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a Private Members Bill.

  Had this bill originated from the Commons, I would have been able to explain the basically-zero chance of this becoming law. However, PMBs are handled slightly differently by the Lords, so I don’t want to spread misinformation about the process. See this article on the Lords website for more.

  Regardless, absent government support, PMBs are the UK legislator’s equivalent of parliamentary e-petitions: they rarely result in legislation being passed, and they compete with other initiatives for debate time.

  In a nutshell, this bill will most likely die in the Lords.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sponsor: Liberal Democrats

    Hmm… Which powerful Liberal Democrats could potentially have had an influence in this and has an interest in entrenched corporate social media?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg#Facebook

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• hexdream@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They just keep aiming at their feet and pulling that trigger.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When you give TV presenters a crumb of political power…

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