Facebook needs independent ethical oversight: UK lawmakers
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 17, 2019 / 7:10 PM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook and other big tech companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news, the abuse of users data and the bullying of smaller firms, British lawmakers said on Monday.
In a damning report that singled out Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg for what it said was a failure of leadership and personal responsibility, the UK parliaments Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said the companies had proved ineffective in stopping harmful content and disinformation on their platforms.
The guiding principle of the move fast and break things culture often seems to be that it is better to apologize than ask permission, committee chairman Damian Collins said.
We need a radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people.
Collins said the age of inadequate self-regulation must come to an end.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-britain/facebook-needs-independent-ethical-oversight-uk-lawmakers-idUSKCN1Q7005
Mother Jones current issue has a article about Facebook....................and says the same thing about that platform and others........................"self regulation must come to an end"......................
JudyM
(29,236 posts)Theyre thinking along the right lines, though!
Aussie105
(5,388 posts)I'd prefer more direct action though, a bunch of talented hackers taking Facebook, Twitter and a few others off the air for months at a time.
In the meantime, I refuse to take any of them seriously.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Darson
(19 posts)What Facebook needs is bankruptcy, annihilation, a one-way ticket to the ash heap of history, for it has become one of the most destructive entities in America today.