February, 2020
'The government is to outline new powers for the media regulator Ofcom to police social media.
It is supposed to make the companies protect users from content involving things like violence, terrorism, cyber-bullying and child abuse.
Companies will have to ensure that harmful content is removed quickly and take steps to prevent it appearing in the first place.
They had previously relied largely on self-governance. Sites such as YouTube and Facebook have their own rules about what is unacceptable and the way that users are expected to behave towards one another.'
This is interesting for me, as this sets guidelines for social media sites that I am not going to be touching on in much detail. This regulation applies more to streaming sites such as Youtube and less to the more popular sites, such as Twitter and Instagram, which are the most popular within my demographic. Therefore, this article tells me that not much is being done towards the censorship of the particular sites I will focus on, which is an idea that I can incorporate into my website/documentary.
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