{"id":8189,"date":"2022-12-05T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/while-eu-regulators-take-on-elon-musk-britains-online-safety-bill-is-a-beacon-of-mediocrity-chris-stokel-walker\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:37:40","slug":"while-eu-regulators-take-on-elon-musk-britains-online-safety-bill-is-a-beacon-of-mediocrity-chris-stokel-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/while-eu-regulators-take-on-elon-musk-britains-online-safety-bill-is-a-beacon-of-mediocrity-chris-stokel-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"While EU regulators take on Elon Musk, Britain\u2019s online safety bill is a beacon of mediocrity | Chris Stokel-Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attempt to bring big tech to heel promised much but, three years on, pleases no one \u2013 it\u2019s the Brexit disaster writ large<\/p>\n

The online safety bill<\/a> was tabled for discussion in parliament on Monday, resuscitating it from its deathbed and adding yet another chapter to this controversial attempt to bring the internet to heel. But rather than celebrate its return, we should greet it with a groan: an already unwieldy attempt to regulate the internet has become a confusing mishmash of competing interests.<\/p>\n

The bill has become a Frankenstein\u2019s monster of legislation, in part thanks to the chaotic recent history of UK politics. Successive governments and successive culture secretaries have tried to put their stamp on the legislation, pulling it this way and that until it becomes meaningless. We are now on our fourth prime minister and fifth secretary of state since the idea of legislating the digital sphere was first introduced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe attempt to bring big tech to heel promised much but, three years on, pleases no one \u2013 it\u2019s the Brexit disaster writ large
\nThe online safety bill was tabled for discussion in parliament on Monday, resuscitating it from its deathbed and adding yet another chapter to this controversial attempt to bring the internet to heel. But rather than celebrate its return, we should greet it with a groan: an already unwieldy attempt to regulate the internet has become a confusing mishmash of competing interests.
\nThe bill has become a Frankenstein\u2019s monster of legislation, in part thanks to the chaotic recent history of UK politics. Successive governments and successive culture secretaries have tried to put their stamp on the legislation, pulling it this way and that until it becomes meaningless. We are now on our fourth prime minister and fifth secretary of state since the idea of legislating the digital sphere was first introduced. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The attempt to bring big tech to heel promised much but, three years on, pleases no one \u2013 it\u2019s the Brexit disaster writ large The online safety bill was tabled for discussion in parliament on Monday, resuscitating it from its deathbed and adding yet another chapter to this controversial attempt to bring the internet to …<\/p>\n

While EU regulators take on Elon Musk, Britain\u2019s online safety bill is a beacon of mediocrity | Chris Stokel-Walker<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}