Tom Barraclough Photo: supplied
This week the government released a Safer Online Services and Media Platforms 'discussion document' proposing to regulate online content the same way other media is regulated. Its set off alarm bells for everyone from Stuff head Sinead Boucher to the Free Speech Union, yet has been welcomed by others as a big step towards making the internet a safer place.
The proposal doesn't look to expand the categories of illegal content, says Tom Barraclough, and takes its lead from the European Union's recently implemented Digital Services Act.
Tamaki Makaurau based, the Brainbox Institute researches emerging technologies and corresponding policy and legal issues.
Barraclough is on a panel discussion this afternoon at the Doc Edge film festival on deepfakes,1pm at the Ellen Melville Centre.
