Countries around the world are passing laws regarding social media and search results. The growing issue is several of these country-specific laws are written so they must be enforced globally. Vivek Krishnamurthy, assistant director of Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, goes into great detail on how these laws could end up sanitizing the internet.
This is a seriously disturbing trend. We covered when Germany passed the law that orders social media companies to delete hate speech within 24 hours or face a fine of $57 million. What I was not aware of is the dozens of other cases all over the world. This global overreach of national laws is a very real problem; a problem to where a dictator could potentially censor the internet globally if this precedent is set. The other outcome being the "World Wide Web" may become not so world wide.
"The way the trend is going, there is a lot of pressure directed at breaking the internet, this global network, into a national network with interconnections It could change what the internet looks like in five or ten years."
This is a seriously disturbing trend. We covered when Germany passed the law that orders social media companies to delete hate speech within 24 hours or face a fine of $57 million. What I was not aware of is the dozens of other cases all over the world. This global overreach of national laws is a very real problem; a problem to where a dictator could potentially censor the internet globally if this precedent is set. The other outcome being the "World Wide Web" may become not so world wide.
"The way the trend is going, there is a lot of pressure directed at breaking the internet, this global network, into a national network with interconnections It could change what the internet looks like in five or ten years."