The UK can become a pioneer in online safety, but the new prime minister should focus on high-level, flexible guidelines to ensure innovation in content moderation, private communications, digital identity, and artificial intelligence thrive in the UK. But to do so the new prime minister should focus on a moldable, light-touch approach that focuses on protecting the types of speech UK citizens want—conversations about police practices, reproductive rights, and injustice, for example—while preventing what they don’t—cyber flashing, criminal offenses, and exploitation of marginalized communities.
Read the full quickfire advising Prime Minister Liz Truss in The New Statesman.
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