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Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by sirsinsalot on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:24AM (#33786193)
Not really, they're welcome to have in their ToS:

"We will ban accounts for anything we don't like, at our discretion, at any time and for any reason without disclosure".

Job done.

Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by skissane on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:28AM (#33786214)
Until some judge decides such a clause is legally void and must be disregarded, since otherwise it would turn the legislation into a dead letter
Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by sirsinsalot on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:31AM (#33786238)
If we're dealing in the hypothetical then sure.

But forcing businesses to disclose their policy in their ToS will prevent this false narrative of "free speech" used to whitewash a politicised and editorialised approach to business.

Just tell people that your "platform" isn't really a platform, it's a mechanism of control outside the bounds of the law.

Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by Mindwipe on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:47AM (#33786363)
> Until some judge decides such a clause is legally void and must be disregarded, since otherwise it would turn the legislation into a dead letter

It's not a judge's job to stop legislation turning into a dead letter if it's incompetently drafted, which this is.

It's to reflect the laws and intersections of them as written.

This bill is going to go down hard in judicial review, because the people writing it and the lobbyists arguing for it are cretins.

Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by skissane on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:45PM (#33793776)
> It's not a judge's job to stop legislation turning into a dead letter if it's incompetently drafted, which this is.

That really comes down to whether the judges given the decision want to save it or sink it. Even if the legislation is poorly drafted, if they want to save it, they’ll find a way to read it which saves Parliament’s intentions. If they want to sink it, they can exploit its poor drafting to render it toothless.

I have no idea which path British judges will choose to go down. Unless you can claim some special insight into their thinking, I doubt you really do either.

Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by _trampeltier on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:46AM (#33786351)
It's already written in all ToS.
Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by sirsinsalot on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:47AM (#33786356)
Good. Then we all know where we stand with out digital overlords.
Re:UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content in f... by causality0 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:28AM (#33786703)
Yeah, but that's how they're acting already. Forcing them to admit it openly might cause people to not use the platform, which in turn might make them adopt and enforce reasonable rules.