More censorship legislation is needed to protect people online after social media giants' failure to tackle hate speech on their websites, claims the Labour Party. Jo Stevens, shadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, claimed
the UK desperately needed legislation forcing platforms to act because self-regulation isn't working. The Labour party is accusing the Government of delaying the introduction of an online harms bill to protect Internet users. It comes after
politicians and campaigners condemned Twitter for being too slow to remove anti-Semitic tweets by rapper Wiley. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he has written to Instagram and Twitter to make it clear that they need to act immediately to
remove social media posts that Labour does not like. |