The United Kingdom isn’t just focused on age-gating and regulating what its citizens can see and do on the internet through its Online Safety Act. Now, officials are setting their sights on what people can stream, expanding their regulatory focus beyond local television channels and into the workings of non-UK companies like Netflix.
Social media ‐-> Streaming --> from there, music streaming, e-books, bookstores, libraries, museums, etc. The curse of the moral busybody - forever finding offense.
Right. But this is so much worse than a mere moral busybody. This is the government deciding what can and cannot be expressed and consumed. Further, the empowerment of grievance machinery enables any one or any faction to decide what everyone else will see and hear. The chilling effect on free expression and artistic endeavor will make the MPAA controversy here in the US look like the proverbial teapot tempest.
Social media ‐-> Streaming --> from there, music streaming, e-books, bookstores, libraries, museums, etc. The curse of the moral busybody - forever finding offense.
Right. But this is so much worse than a mere moral busybody. This is the government deciding what can and cannot be expressed and consumed. Further, the empowerment of grievance machinery enables any one or any faction to decide what everyone else will see and hear. The chilling effect on free expression and artistic endeavor will make the MPAA controversy here in the US look like the proverbial teapot tempest.
The spirit of Carrie Nation rises from the grave., "...you don't know how good it feels till you begin to smash, smash, smash! "