Submitted on Tuesday 13th July 2021
Rejected on Monday 19th July 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce online abuse standards that must be complied with to avoid big fines.
Impose significant penalties for online social media organisations that fail to introduce technological solutions to eradicate racial abuse online and at source. Mandate specific standards and controls (and required measures) and set these organisations with a target date to comply to them.
There is an acceptance that online racial abuse is something we just have to live with but these tech companies have the ability to introduce measures to monitor, eradicate and control posts at source (where they meet unacceptable criteria). Boycotting social media sites has not worked and there seems little appetite for ID verification when opening accounts (which would have been ideal) so this seems to be the next best option.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You might like to sign the following petitions:
Social media companies to be held accountable for racially abusive posts
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591688
Require social media platforms’ terms of use to prohibit racism and hate speech
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591760
You might also like to know that the Government intends to introduce an Online Safety Bill which will require social media companies to remove and limit the spread of illegal and harmful content, including possible fines for companies that fail to comply with this new duty of care. You can read more:
www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-laws-to-keep-children-safe-stop-racial-hate-and-protect-democracy-online-published
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