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The moral maze of cleaning the internet

The moral maze of cleaning the internet

Can online content be made a "safe space" without lurching into censorship?

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 24, 2022
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Michael Buerk, our intrepid leader through the moral maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we discussed how to clean up the internet. Is it possible to regulate it to remove harmful content, or does that inevitably lead to censorship of legitimate ideas?

Legislation currently going through the British parliament seeks to remove content which does “ph…

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