Sounds like the Home Affairs Select Committee on Online Harms was pretty crunchy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/21/facebook-admits-encryption-will-harm-efforts-to-prevent-child-exploitation
Facebook admits encryption will harm efforts to prevent child exploitation

British MP asks firm why it is introducing end-to-end encryption that will ‘put more children at risk’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/21/facebook-admits-encryption-will-harm-efforts-to-prevent-child-exploitation
Catching up now. Yvette Cooper takes the Google policy person to task on the role of YouTube in radicalisation and white supremacy straight away. @nickpickles meanwhile v clear on link between online and offline harms https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/37d045f1-26ff-4097-a693-fa0dd5083599
Worth reading in the context of this by Oliver Dowden, which draws a line between the Arab Spring and the storm on the Capitol, saying that the Online Harms Bill will bring transparency and consistency and reduce arbitary decisions https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trumps-twitter-ban-exposes-the-flaws-in-how-social-media-is-regulated-h2tswgv8l
Donald Trump’s Twitter ban exposes the flaws in how social media is regulated

If the past decade has been defined by anything, it’s the power of social media. Its opening saw the hope of the Arab Spring, while last week we witnessed disgraceful scenes at the US Capitol.Both

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trumps-twitter-ban-exposes-the-flaws-in-how-social-media-is-regulated-h2tswgv8l
*And* to contextualise that - always - important to revisit @zeynep’s Twitter and Tear Gas https://www.twitterandteargas.org/downloads/twitter-and-tear-gas-by-zeynep-tufekci.pdf
Listening to Nick Pickles now, I can't help but wonder if we're about to fall down a rabbit hole of everyone blaming everyone else, and not recognising interrelations and ecosystems. It's the partisan politicians and media! vs It's the platforms!
I won't tweet the whole thing on a 2-hour delay (hi fans!) but it's worth catching up with if you're thinking about and working on this.
I do love listening to Select Committees from home though. Such an overall win for democratic transparency to be able to do this.
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