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The Government’s commitment to acting to support the development of better and more responsible AI technologies is welcome, and a principles-based approach that puts fairness, accountability and transparency at the heart is the right one. But setting out principles alone...
Yesterday, in Human Rights Square in Vienna, activists gathered holding a vigil in memory and to call for justice for journalists killed around the world with impunity. This week, global leaders, international institutions and civil society organisations are gathering in...
Last week we celebrated the launch of the Good Web Network at the Demos office: we asked, what is the Good Web, and what role does the UK have in helping to build it? We brought together civil society, industry,...
After a long and anxious summer for those of us working on tech policy, the new DCMS Secretary, Michelle Donelan, announced that the Online Safety Bill would be returning. The future of the bill became uncertain when a combination of...
The news broke on Wednesday that due to motion being tabled on a vote of no confidence, that the planned Third Reading in the Commons of the Online Safety Bill would be postponed for scheduling reasons, and would return to...
Government regulation and political speech online are uneasy companions – discussion around how to regulate the online world frequently comes up against two inevitable yet clashing truths. One, that doing nothing about the systemic harms in online spaces, from rampant...
All too frequently, liberal societies struggle to articulate what a good Internet would look like. Some of it is hubris, a hangover from the days we celebrated the sight of smartphones in Tahrir Square and thought Twitter would be the...
With the publication of the Online Safety Bill, it has been a landmark few weeks for platform regulation. What is stated in the Bill now is supposed to keep us safe not just on the internet as we know it,...
The UK’s Online Safety Bill has been lauded by the government as “world-leading,” with claims that it will make the UK the “safest place in the world” to go online. Major loopholes in the bill, however, mean this bill represents...
