Is this a spoof?

[pete]

Tories to legislate the internet.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 44176.html

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[campbell]

Where's the manifesto

[neil]

Doesn't look like its a spoof
[quote="https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mani ... o2017.pdf""]
The safest place to be online
In harnessing the digital revolution, we must take steps to protect the vulnerable and give people confidence to use the internet without fear of abuse, criminality or exposure to horrific content. Our starting point is that online rules should reflect those that govern our lives offline. It should be as unacceptable to bully online as it is in the playground, as difficult to groom a young child on the internet as it is in a community, as hard for children to access violent and degrading pornography online as it is in the high street, and as difficult to commit a crime digitally as it is physically.
Where technology can find a solution, we will pursue it. We will work with industry to introduce new protections for minors, from images of pornography, violence, and other age-inappropriate content not just on social media but in app stores and content sites as well. We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm. We will make clear the responsibility of platforms to enable the reporting of inappropriate, bullying, harmful or illegal content, with take-down on a comply-or-explain basis.
We will continue to push the internet companies to deliver on their commitments to develop technical tools to identify and remove terrorist propaganda, to help smaller companies build their capabilities and to provide support for civil society organisations to promote alternative and counter-narratives. In addition, we do not believe that there should be a safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online and will work to prevent them from having this capability.
We will educate today’s young people in the harms of the internet and how best to combat them, introducing comprehensive Relationships and Sex Education in all primary and secondary schools to ensure that children learn about the risks of the internet, including cyberbullying and online grooming.
Where we believe people need more protections to keep them safe, we will act to protect them. We will give people new rights to ensure they are in control of their own data, including the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them at the age of 18, the ability to access and export personal data, and an expectation that personal data held should be stored in a secure way. To create a sound ethical framework for how data is used, we will institute an expert Data Use and Ethics Commission to advise regulators and parliament on the nature of data use and how best to prevent its abuse. The Commission will help us to develop the principles and rules that will give people confidence that their data is being handled properly. Alongside this commission, we will bring forward a new data protection law, fit for our new data age, to ensure the very best standards for the safe, flexible and dynamic use of data and enshrining our global leadership in the ethical and proportionate regulation of data. We will put the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care on a statutory footing to ensure data security standards are properly enforced.
We will continue with our £1.9 billion investment in cyber security and build on the successful establishment of the National Cyber Security Centre through our worldleading cyber security strategy. We will make sure that our public services, businesses, charities and individual users are protected from cyber risks. We will further strengthen cyber security standards for government and public services, requiring all public services to follow the most up to date cyber security techniques appropriate.

A free media
At a time when the internet is changing the way people obtain their news, we also need to take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy and a free and independent press. We will ensure content creators are appropriately rewarded for the content they make available online. We will be consistent in our approach to regulation of online and offline media. Given the comprehensive nature of the first stage of the Leveson Inquiry and given the lengthy investigations by the police and Crown Prosecution Service into alleged wrongdoing, we will not proceed with the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. We will repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2014, which, if enacted, would force media organisations to become members of a flawed regulatory system or risk having to pay the legal costs of both sides in libel and privacy cases, even if they win.
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Full thing here - https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/mani ... o2017.pdf"

[pete]

Written by someone who doesn't understand technology.

<shudders>



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[pete]

Where's the manifesto

I am not your Google

David Davies was speaking this week.

"A Vote for the Tories is a vote for hard Brexit - it's what people want"

Is it?

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[c8rkh]

It is for me!

[Sanjøy]

Written by someone who doesn't understand technology.

<shudders>

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Agree, however I appreciate what they are trying to do although badly executed.

After the last week of malware I would like to see some form of GCHQ reaction force for cyber attacks on infrastructure and then ISPs to protect Joe public. We legislate ISPs to block the bittorrent sites super fast but we should be forcing them to react like the big corps when it comes to outbreaks which would protect the grannies etc.

The social media piece is an interesting one and one that as a techy I cant answer but psychologist ought to. Imagine having ALL your school and uni banter online for employers to see. Was bad enough for us Comp Sci students having the clear down their usenet posts.

[pete]

It is for me!

His statement seemed at odds with other Tory policies on Brexit where I thought a so called hard Brexit was a last resort. Or limited to extremists, UKipers, Dunning and Kruger.

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[Corranga]

Written by someone who doesn't understand technology.

<shudders>

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Agree, however I appreciate what they are trying to do although badly executed.

After the last week of malware I would like to see some form of GCHQ reaction force for cyber attacks on infrastructure and then ISPs to protect Joe public. We legislate ISPs to block the bittorrent sites super fast but we should be forcing them to react like the big corps when it comes to outbreaks which would protect the grannies etc.

The social media piece is an interesting one and one that as a techy I cant answer but psychologist ought to. Imagine having ALL your school and uni banter online for employers to see. Was bad enough for us Comp Sci students having the clear down their usenet posts.

The social media one is indeed very interesting. I've seen enough 'banter' turn to pure out and out playground bullying, by fully grown adults. There are plenty of folk out there who are too happy to hide behind an avatar and do nothing but kick abuse at those around them. I think that bit is very positive.

The internet should be governed like the world around us, but that applies both ways. The government shouldn't just be able to step in and view any communications without proper authority (which I assume is what happens with phones etc.) but I don't have any issues with it being used correctly.

This however can go to far very easily. We don't want major government censorship of the internet, and that would be very simple to achieve under that manifesto.. The execution will be very, very difficult!