{"id":23012,"date":"2018-05-21T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:29:23","slug":"can-we-really-control-the-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23012","title":{"rendered":"Can we really control the tech giants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sports Matt Hancock has said that the Government will enact legislation to control social media firms and online abuse but, in a television interview this weekend, he admitted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When he called in representatives of 14 leading Internet companies to discuss his concerns, only four turned up.<\/li>\n<li>It is likely to be two years before the Government has worked out detailed proposals and finds the time to legislate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/may\/20\/new-uk-law-to-rein-in-social-media-firms-is-couple-of-years-away-says-minister&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiIj5im85bbAhWjQJoKHUOED20QFggLMAI&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;cx=007466294097402385199:m2ealvuxh1i&amp;usg=AOvVaw04rkS_gvndfzhP0qiKlsk1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sports Matt Hancock has said that the Government will enact legislation to control social media firms and online abuse but, in a television interview this weekend, he admitted: When he called in representatives of 14 leading Internet companies to discuss his concerns, only four turned up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23013,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions\/23013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}