According to the British Sky News Channel and the Independent reported on the 5th, the British Minister of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries recently warned that if social media Facebook does not comply with the country’s new Internet Security Law, the Platform founder and CEO Zuckerberg is “absolutely” at risk of jail time.
According to reports, the British “Cybersecurity Act” bill added a series of criminal matters on the 4th local time, in order to force social media companies to take faster action against illegal content. Against this backdrop, Nadine Dorries, UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, was interviewed by The Times Radio UK.
Asked whether Zuckerberg could go to jail if the Facebook platform doesn’t follow the new rules, Dorries first said she wanted the bill to be a notification to online platforms: “Let you know now. What is this, so start doing what you’re supposed to do.”
The host then asked the platform executives if there was a risk of jail time if they didn’t comply, and she responded: “Absolutely.”
However, Dorris’ tough claim was opposed by Andy Burrows, head of the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), who argued that was not the case. “Clearly, unless the Cybersecurity Law is sufficiently strengthened, the consequences of criminal sanctions will only be palpable,” Burrows said.
In order to rectify the chaos on the Internet, the British government released the long-awaited draft of the “Cybersecurity Law” in 2021, claiming to make the United Kingdom “the safest country on the Internet”. The British “Times” reported on the 24th of last month that the draft “Internet Security Law” promoted by the British government mainly targets social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, urging them to remove “harmful content”.
According to the definition of the draft, harmful content may not touch the bottom line of the law, but still cause harm to the audience, such as encouraging self-harm speech, various rumors and false information.