HOW OFCOM SIGNED OFF ON CHANNEL 4’s LIES

David Elstein says the regulator was complicit in a misleading C4 documentary about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya

THE UK’S MEDIA REGULATOR, OFCOM, IS TO to take on new responsibilities. Once enacted, the Online Safety Bill will penalise internet platforms that fail to protect children from exposure to harmful content: Ofcom is recruiting additional staff to monitor behaviour. The media giants it will have to confront, such as Facebook, are rather more formidable than some of the relative minnows such as GB News it currently ticks off for breaching impartiality rules. A possible ban on end-to-end encryption — seen by ministers as a protection of criminal behaviour, but by those who deploy it as crucial to safeguard consumer privacy — could see services such as WhatsApp boycott the UK entirely. And Netflix has warned that if — as another piece of planned legislation proposes — its output will…

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