{"id":196230,"date":"2024-12-16T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/uks-ofcom-to-tweak-social-media-rules-in-response-to-summer-riots\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:27:09","slug":"uks-ofcom-to-tweak-social-media-rules-in-response-to-summer-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/uks-ofcom-to-tweak-social-media-rules-in-response-to-summer-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Ofcom to Tweak Social Media Rules in Response to Summer Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/social_media_apps_reuters_1725971945223.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UK&#8217;s Ofcom to Tweak Social Media Rules in Response to Summer Riots\" title=\"UK&#8217;s Ofcom to Tweak Social Media Rules in Response to Summer Riots\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The UK plans to extend its rules against illegal material online to cover how social media companies respond to crises like the recent riots in the country, according to a statement from British regulator Ofcom on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency released its first guidelines for the Online Safety Act, a law passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms. In the release, Ofcom said it is planning additional measures for next spring that include new proposals for removing material tied to child sexual abuse and terrorism. It will also introduce \u201ccrisis response protocols for emergency events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Violent protests broke out across the UK in August after the fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport and false rumors that the attacker was a Muslim asylum-seeker. The riots were a major challenge for the government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer in his second month in office. Starmer appealed to <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/social-media\">social media<\/a> companies to halt what he called \u201cviolent disorder clearly whipped up online.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>, the billionaire owner of X, repeatedly criticized Starmer for his handling of the riots. The aftermath prompted Starmer&#8217;s Labour party to consider stricter rules to curb incendiary content online, Bloomberg News reported earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom said on Monday that companies have three months to complete an assessment of illegal harms on their platforms under the agency&#8217;s first rules. Failure to comply can bring fines of up to 10 percent of a platform&#8217;s worldwide revenue or, \u201cin very serious cases,\u201d a court order to block access to its service in the UK, according to the regulator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese laws mark a fundamental re-set in society&#8217;s expectations of technology companies,\u201d Peter Kyle, the UK technology secretary, said in a statement on Monday. \u201cI expect them to deliver and will be watching closely to make sure they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2024 Bloomberg L.P.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/internet\/news\/uk-tweak-social-media-rules-response-summer-riots-7262086#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK plans to extend its rules against illegal material online to cover how social media companies respond to crises like the recent riots in the country, according to a statement from British regulator Ofcom on Monday.\u00a0 The agency released its first guidelines for the Online Safety Act, a law passed in 2023 to govern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/social_media_apps_reuters_1725971945223.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[3200,1392,153971,8283,19223,899,2291,776,8971,77481,153970,4163],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196232,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196230\/revisions\/196232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}