UK calls for “online harms” regulator to police “misinformation”

Looks like another initiative destined to draw the ire of digital and privacy groups for representing censorship by any other name.

MPs who propose and defend it, however, say that tech companies need to be tightly regulated from the outside.

“The coronavirus crisis has demonstrated that without due weight of the law, social media companies have no incentive to consider a duty of care to those who use their services,” said chairman of a Department’s committee that is putting forward the proposal, Julian Knight.

I'm sure this will turn out well.