here's the ever interesting David Allen Green on why regulating the press/media may be easy to demand but is (now) much more difficult to achieve.
For this of us who see the control of the media & what its owners do with that control as a key problem for the UK's democracy, this is what one can call a 'sobering read'!
Netanyahus government just shut down the @aljazeera office in Israel, I guess that is one way of controlling the media and ensuring only certain stories get out.
As a few seem to have pointed out, in clear violation of international law, the fact western governments do not seem to have condemned this, is rather worrying.
@davidallengreen@ChrisMayLA6
Content is hard to regulate, but making media platforms responsible for content they promote may be a credible option, especially in conjunction with a law making it a crime to deliberately or recklessly mislead the public.
A lot of the problems with social media are related to the widespread dissemination of outright lies. A legal approach that made platforms cautious about what their algorithms promote would go a long way towards detoxifying social media.
Unfortunately that is not easy to implement and enforce practically. It may not be possible at all. You may as well try to regulate in-person conversations.
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