Pak Sahafat – News sources have reported that the British Parliament has approved a plan to manage cyberspace.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, the British Parliament has recently approved a controversial plan aimed at managing cyberspace and making cyberspace companies responsible for what is called “guaranteeing the safety of users on the Internet”.
This project, dubbed “Online Safety Bill”, has been discussed among the members of the British Parliament for several years. The plan forces Internet companies to remove what it calls “illegal content” or to remove content that is harmful to children.
The non-profit NSPCC, which bills itself as a children’s charity, welcomed the passage of the plan and said its becoming law would mean a safer online space for children.
In this plan, which has nearly 300 pages, pornography websites are required not to display sexual content for children and to check the age of users. Although it was said that the purpose of passing this law is to restrain large companies active in the field of technology, but British government officials have said that more than 20,000 small businesses will also be required to obey the provisions of this law.
If companies do not comply with the new rules, the British Media Regulatory Authority will be able to fine these companies nearly 18 million pounds ($22.3 million), or about 10 percent of their annual turnover.
Despite this, this law has faced serious opposition from technology companies. Much of the criticism of these companies centers on the encryption of messages, and major companies such as WhatsApp have even threatened to leave the UK market if they are forced to scan users’ texts.
Encryption makes the messages invisible to parties outside the two sides of the conversation. Tech companies argue that the law violates users’ privacy.
British newspapers reported today that several major companies have removed their ads from the Rumble website.
Greenwald wrote about this: The British media are now pushing a new, repressive online safety law plan for Rumble, arguing that the website should be banned in the UK altogether. The newspapers further argued that the website’s administrators could be arrested upon arrival in the UK.
The Online Safety Plan has come a long way to becoming law. According to a BBC report, discussions about this law began 6 years ago, when the British government committed itself to the idea of ​​improving safety on the Internet.
Imran Ahmad, one of the members of the organization called “Digital Hate Center” welcomed the approval of this plan and said that the moral failures of technology companies have caused many tragedies for the people around him.