Reply To: Media Censorship
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47202553
A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested.
The Cairncross Review into the future of the UK news industry said such sites should help users identify fake news and “nudge people towards reading news of high quality”. The report called for a new Institute for Public Interest News.
Such a body, it said, could work in a similar way to the Arts Council, channelling public and private funding to “those parts of the industry it deemed most worthy of support”.
And who is defining the high quality of news…did someone say the pro-Iraq invasion cheer-leading of the BBC and the Guardian and the promotion of fake news stories to justify it.
And who deems which news provider “most worth of support” – ahhhh, government appointed quango members like the Arts Council.
Pressure the Big Boys…and soon these Big Boys will pressure us Little Uns who run blogs or Twitter accounts …yup, I am getting paranoid…