PARMY OLSON: Social media moguls may face jail if UK bill is beefed up

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PARMY OLSON: Social media moguls may face jail if UK bill is beefed up
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Personal sanctions against company leadership are a more effective deterrent to bad behaviour

The UK government is about to do something that will make Silicon Valley shudder, or at least make social media executives think twice about flying over British airspace.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks all but certain to strengthen the UK’s Online Safety Bill with criminal sanctions for social media bosses, after fierce lobbying from the country’s governing Conservative Party. The bill aims to protect under-18s from harmful content; so if regulators find that Instagram has been steering British children toward material encouraging suicide, Mark Zuckerberg could face up to two years behind bars...

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