Tineash wrote:Government regulation stopped match factory workers dying of phosphorus poisoning, it stopped garment factory workers being locked in and burning to death in a fire, it stopped small children's arms being severed by mechanical looms, it stopped companies polluting rivers so badly that they caught fire.
The regulatory state can deal with social media platforms, if we let it.
While I agree with you, it would take a lot more than just our government to legislate. We need the US government to legislate in order to stop Facebook, YouTube and Twitter allowing extremists. And the US will not ever do it, the guarantee of freedom of speech in the constitution will stop it.
The only thing the UK government or the EU could do is block the social media platforms, otherwise YouTube will just say “yeah it’s bad but it was an American broadcasting from Florida, what can we do?”.
It would be great if the social media platforms themselves rooted out and stopped hatred spreading, but they don’t give a gooseberry fool and never will give gooseberry fool.