No! No! No! Government cannot regulate social media, it will kill freedom of speech
It would help if they removed terrorist accounts. You can find hangings and beheadings on here and Facebook from verified accounts. Yet we post saying how bad these videos are and we get a ban or reported for racism
Starting to SEE it yet ? WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE
And who gets to decide? This will end up in full-blown censorship by the back door.
Control they mean
How about people being responsible for the horrific things they write? If you wouldn't say it to someone's face why do people feel entitled to type it to people's profiles.
Thought police. 1984
and in doing so they will just drive it underground where there will be even less control of it
Britain's slow decline into a police state continues...
More attacks on free speech? It's not technology that kills, its people. Society needs to be purged of selfishness, greed, and other Thatcherite/Blairite characteristics to reduce rates of suicide and self-harm.
Global companies might listen to a big player like the EU but not to what will and has become an irreverent little island so best think on..,
If you want to see the real news watch RT its russian i know but shows whats really happening in europe , its imploding in on itself italy attacking france and germany, yellowvests,greece,hungary the eu is nearing its end people have had enough .. oh except the eletists
Why do ministers come out with this sort of tosh? They cannot 'ban' it and they know it. Even if they could it would alienate an entire generation of voters. MPs are currently held pretty much in contempt, would they want to make it any worse for themselves?
Hey BBC, change the headline on your website. Says 'Uk could ban social media' yet nowhere in the artical is this ever suggested, totally misleading again by you
Yeah - because freedom of speech terrifies governments
He means removing the truth or healthy debate
What about people take some responsibility and grow up for a change.
I cant believe that this is still being discussed just remove the content now and let’s not have our young ones exposed to this it should not be easy to see this so why are we still discussing it. I would like to meet the person that thinks this content is acceptable
Harmful content? And who will decide what is harmful or not?
Yes the rich boys hate truths. They much prefer MSM.
Ah Matty-Boy; Has a naughty person upset you/colleagues over Brexit? Tell me who they are & I'll get them at playtime.
I think the Russians purged 'harmful content' in the early 1930s, & I believe the Nazis purged their society and media of 'harmful content' in the mid to late 1930s and 1940s. Tell me, how did that work out when those governments enforced 'acceptable' content on their population
“Harmful content”. Most people would agree, but then again most people aren’t the sharpest tools in the Shed, and never foresee that oppressive people determine WHAT “harmful content” is.
Harmful to whom? Thoughtcrime bullshit. Maybe the government should focus on taxing those huge organisations properly, rather than deciding what we are and aren't allowed to say.
Don't you mean have control like the rest off the media
This can't end well!
In my neighbourhood they call it censorship.
And how do we do that the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech all tec companies are based there unless the Americans change that it's not going to happen
How about purging politicians from the internet
Idiot - he has no idea what he is talking about.
And just what is 'harmful' is subjective.
Matt Hancock should not pretend that legislating and being an independent country will make the slightest difference. It won't.... because it can't.
No! Give ppl freedom of speech and not nanny us.
Aka educate the peasants
The people must “purge” the government of harmful politicians.
What you need is to purge harmful content out of politics. Truth is that governments cannot wait to get their grubby little hand on the internet to moderate and regulate it to further their own ends. The internet is one of the only platforms free from their influence.
Self harm by someone who really knows. Brave guy trying to help those who see the scars and for those that make them. Self harm---- … The reasoning behind self harm---v
The genie is out of the bottle there is no cork anymore it's long gone, as quickly as you ban something, something else springs up to replace it, it can't be regulated trying is futile
This is going to be the next big fight after Brexit (if it ever happens). The establishment are going to try their level best to censor anything that challenges their narrative.
I am concerned that this message is more about being able to censor people than what it says on the surface.
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THewitt44 The burblings of Parliament (front bench of Labour only) could do with being purged ... for health reasons.
Shut the anti semetic left wing trolls down that Corbyn does nothing about
Who decides what falls in the 'harmful content' category? 'Harmful' to who? There is no need to purge ANYTHING most people are able to 'use their loaves' on the internet and those that don't should be punished INDIVIDUALLY.
What about the mainstream media who are doing everything in there power to destroy Great Britain. BBC/EBC and sad sad sky should have to have a licence to broadcast and have it removed when they show bias or lie.
I saw a distressing image of a boy that had a tie around his neck and looked like he was hanging himself and I reported it to instagram
We could do with an Ethics committee from all sorts of backgrounds a sort of Mary Whitehouse group but one that regularly checked the temperature of public opinions whilst holding fast to the standards of human dignity and integrity that link us all and are non partisan.
I don't know how you keep it together without swearing AndrewMarr9
Who does Hancock think he is? The Irish should simply agree to May's terrible deal because he says so?
So no more Tory MPs on Twitter then? Great news!
The Government only want you to see the dangerous stuff they put on. propaganda
And what if the content this group supports infringes with my values.
The glorious state will decide what content you can see... what could possibly go wrong 🙄
What is ‘harmful content’? And who will decide what can and can’t be posted? Control starts small
Yes because that’s how it works.
And who decides what’s harmful?
Translation...”we must remove anti Tory messages “
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Why? The same devices in which people access social media sites with also contain search engines which allow users to do in depth research about the things they see posted by others.
Translate we are going to censor the content on social media
First job is to close the Conservatives and LibDems accounts!
Subjectively i’ll wager 🙄
That will be a long & tedious task! 😏
BBC must purge themselves of Tory bias
Interview with Yvette Cooper no interruptions. Interview with Nicola Sturgeon interrupted 7 times, and despite both Marr and Sturgeon saying due to legal issues she cannot talk about Salmond charges in court he asks her two more time about it. Explain please!!
that's most Tory politicisns. Assuming it stops lying. You could help too bbcnewspr
it's about time the internet was regulated! Imagine having a service that did whatever it wanted without being held accountable
So then it goes underground, where there is no retraint
Can we regulate governments on broken manifesto promises too? 😳
Here's some harmful content purged by HMG and HerMajestysBBC GiletsJaunes YellowJackets DNotice MediaBlackout HMGTV
Cautiously welcome the intervention (as we see FreeSpeech being curtailed) ⚖
Incredible .When will Mr Hancock admit that his extremistPro Brexit backers used the internet to target uk voters. How dare they try and stop rational people who are opposing this coup from informing the public.The cabal from 55 Tutton st are threatening martial law! RevokeA50
Full of himself eh?
Purging the streets from harmful people is no longer the priority, let's hope the police catch them on Internet instead.
That would include most of Hancock's posts then, and May Boris, Hunt et al
Ha! Yeah. Right. Good luck with that! Marr
Do not trust the Establishment to do this fairly.
Is that not the sort of thing China and Zimbabwe are trying to do
The Purge. It begins. Fascisti
The corruption in politics world wide.. Politicians MUST control twitter they must stop the TRUTH.. The EU Mafia Bribes.. pays offs.. gives highly paid jobs to ex civil servants and ex politicians. Look at the after dinner speaking scam £100,000 a night. Viva Brexit
aka Censorship.
Especially any opposition to the tories crap policies and brexit!
'Purge' - That's a good Stalinist word that is... MattHancock Brexit DoYouKnowWhereYoureGoingTo
Or better yet people could stop being snowflakes.
That would be the Tories, their bots and their enablers gone then.
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How long before political opinions become 'harmful content' I wonder? FreedomOfSpeech FreedomOfExpression suicide news PoliticsLive
Worrying though if the person deciding what's 'harmful content' is some deranged SJW or something.
Yes please.
We also must purge the government of treacherous MP's.
There is a fine line between restriction of harmful content and censorship. I would not trust the Conservatives to define this line given their record.
Define 'harmful'
Does that include lying ministers and MPs ?
'Purge the internet' = remove stuff that is anti-Tory.
Well the BBC should be first
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