UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-lawmaker-truth-scores/

by Jerry2 • 4 years ago

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anigbrowl• 4 years ago

Terrible suggestion, but this site is also terrible tabloidy clickbait.

hyperman1• 4 years ago

What a lovely suggestion. Let's start by applying it to UK lawmakers.

Terry_Roll3• 4 years ago

So the Police choose what laws they enforce according to their own agenda, and with PartyGate back over Xmas, the Scottish Police decided to arrest/prosecute someone who tweeted Nicola Sturgeon's residence address as a Scottish Hogmanay party was arrested under the malicious communications act because Nicola Sturgeon's residential address declared for political reasons is actually a relative's of her's.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-arrested-for-organising-st...

Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.

On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!

feet3• 4 years ago

The police are just there to suppress the working class. Same as in the US

raxxorraxor• 4 years ago

This is actually a good tactic if you want to crash and burn a bill. Put in an amendment that people have to be naked everywhere for security reasons or similar stuff.

Would of course be awesome if Facebook mods would assign scores to users and government would collect that data to determine pension and health care service quality. No real patriot could be against this.

trasz2• 4 years ago

If you look at the proposal, it clearly says this would only apply to (de facto) broadcasters, not to ordinary people; look at the sentence mentioning OFCOM.

r_hoods_ghost• 4 years ago

One of the central planks of this bill is to make OFCOM the regulator of all websites (and messaging services) that serve content to British citizens, including demanding that any site with user generated content verifies the age of viewers and scans everything and anything for CSAM (and apparently truthiness, for Tory values of "truth")

trasz2• 4 years ago

Can you quote the part that requires CSAM?

As for age - it's already there, you can't serve underage content to minors. As for "truthiness" - I'd say this part makes a lot of sense, given the current pandemic of fake news.

hunglee24• 4 years ago

this would actually be a great idea, applied for UK MP's.

ls152• 4 years ago

This way it seems much less dystopian

hunglee24• 4 years ago

more I think about it, it would actually be a great idea. Same goes for journalists. Or actually maybe there is a way to score folks who have amplified voices, perhaps there could be some levelling

imtringued• 4 years ago

I am tired of negative politics news. Where are all the good politicians doing a good job? Wasn't that the point of Brexit?

boffinAudio5• 4 years ago

The point of Brexit was to let bad politicians off the hook for their terrible policies and give them a way to escape further attention and eventual prosecution.

ZeroGravitas2• 4 years ago

No, that was the point of the attempt to reform the voting system to better reflect "the will of the people" that the team behind brexit defeated.

ZeroGravitas2• 4 years ago

This headline appears to be false, since the stated intent is to target high reach accounts, which would mostly be corporations.

The could be using that as a secret wedge, but if we're lying about this on the internet then that only gives support to their misdirection.

charlieyu1• 4 years ago

First they come for...

grnmamba• 4 years ago

From the actual bill:

whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM.

Given the recent history of UK online regulation [2], I think it's save to assume the "minimum threshold" will be extremely low.

[1] https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/onlinesafety_rm_rep_0708.pdf [2] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...

TheLoafOfBread• 4 years ago

This could backfire on politicians in a spectacular way.

UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score

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