2025-05-31
I suppose it was the BCS that started it all off with their GDPR recommendations, too long ago now to remember!
This was taken up by the EU, becoming an EU directive, and effectively still in force today.
But today we have the much overused NCHIs (any use of such widely drawn terms is an overuse in my book, especially since the alleged perpetrator has no effective control over the reactions of others), and much additional regulation whose sole objective is to scare social media companies to police their customers to suppress content that would otherwise be legal under free speech rules.
Censorship by the back door in effect.
So #together have decided that we need a new digital bill of rights to simplify the situation (although we would have to repeal a fair bit of the existing rulebook in order to make a real impact, and I can't see that happening any time soon).
Still, it's an initiative on the right lines, so here it is:
(6 minutes)
