{"id":306190,"date":"2017-05-01T22:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-or-face-fines-uk-parliament\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:42:57","slug":"facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-or-face-fines-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-or-face-fines-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u2018must pay to police internet\u2019 or face fines: UK parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-20170430-gvvz2e.html\"><strong>Canberra Times<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 1 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media firms may be forced to pay for the cost of policing digital crimes and should be fined if they do not quickly censor illegal posts, under plans published by a parliamentary committee\u00a0on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The home affairs select committee, says that the behaviour of Facebook, Twitter and Google has been \u201ccompletely irresponsible and indefensible\u201d and that they should now be presented with the bill for investigating crimes committed over their networks.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201cshockingly easy\u201d to find terrorist material online and companies should face multi-million pound fines and sanctions unless they begin taking robust action.<\/p>\n<p>Similar \u201cpolicing\u201d charges are levied on football clubs and late-night drinking establishments which are blamed for fuelling certain types of crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-20170430-gvvz2e.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, May 1, 2017  at  9:08 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-or-face-fines-uk-parliament.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-must-pay-to-police-internet-or-face-fines-uk-parliament.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra TimesMay 1 2017 Social media firms may be forced to pay for the cost of policing digital crimes and should be fined if they do not quickly censor illegal posts, under plans published by a parliamentary committee\u00a0on Monday. The home affairs select committee, says that the behaviour of Facebook, Twitter and Google has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}