British chancellor warns: If Facebook does not comply with the new Cybersecurity Law, Zuckerberg "can definitely go to jail"
According to the British Sky News channel, the Independent reported on the 5th, the British Ministry of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Minister Nadine Doris recently warned that if social media Facebook does not comply with the country's new "cybersecurity law", the platform founder and CEO Zuckerberg "absolutely" has the risk of imprisonment.
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According to reports, the Uk's Cybersecurity Law bill added a series of criminal matters on the 4th local time, in order to force social media companies to take faster action against illegal content. Against this backdrop, Nadine Doris, Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, was interviewed by Times Radio.
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Asked if Facebook didn't follow the new rules and whether Zuckerberg would be jailed for it, Doris first said she wanted the bill to be a notice to online platforms: "Let you know what this is now, so start doing what you're supposed to do." ”
The moderator then asked platform executives if there was a risk of jail time if they didn't comply, and she responded: "Absolutely. ”
(Nadine Doris, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
However, Doris's tough claim was opposed by Andy Burrows, head of the National Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse (NSPCC), who believes this is not the case. "It is clear that unless the Cybersecurity Law is sufficiently strengthened, the results of criminal sanctions will only be superficial." Burrows said.
In order to rectify the chaos on the Internet, the British government released a long-awaited draft Cybersecurity Law in 2021, claiming to make the UK "the safest country on the Internet". The British "Times" reported on the 24th of last month that the draft cybersecurity law promoted by the British government mainly targets social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, urging them to remove "harmful content". According to the draft definition, harmful content may not touch the legal bottom line, but it will still cause harm to the audience, such as encouraging self-harm speech, various rumors and disinformation.
Source: World Wide Web