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India social media laws would impose burdensome regulations
India social media draft rules have prompted intense lobbying by technology companies, which say the proposals “impose burdensome obligations”. Read more…
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For social media, the Regulator cometh. But should he?
The problem with social media is that the publishing process is controlled by the users and the scale and speed involved create huge challenges. Read more…
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Lobby group criticises plans to regulate India’s social media
An Asian internet lobby group, whose members include Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, has criticised India’s plans to regulate social media content. Read more…
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Higher risk of depression in teenage girls linked to social media
Teenage girls are twice as likely as boys to show depressive symptoms linked to social media use – mainly due to online harassment and disturbed sleep. Read more…
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Who needs govt web censorship when you have Tumblr?
ITEM: Microblogging site Tumblr banned “adult” content from its site as of December 17th. And the reasons behind it highlight the amount of control that web giants have over what people can and can’t see online. Read more…
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India braces for 2019 election social media test
JAIPUR/TONK, India (Reuters) – When India votes in a general election next year, it will be the world’s largest democratic exercise, and the biggest ever test of the role of social media in an election. Read more…
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China closes unlawful social media accounts
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police said on Saturday that it has closed 1,100 social media accounts, along with 31 websites, this year for unlawful activities such as trolling or blackmailing, the official Xinhua news agency Read more…
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Chinese authorities delete 9,800 social media news accounts
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top cyber authority has scrubbed 9,800 social media accounts of independent news providers deemed to have posted sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content on the Internet, it said late on Monday. Read more…
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Probably time to break up tech giants, says Tim Berners-Lee
LONDON (Reuters) – Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of Read more…
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Google faces US and EU investigations over Google+ leak
(Reuters) – At least two US states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc’s Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds Read more…