{"id":78020,"date":"2019-02-02T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78020"},"modified":"2019-02-02T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T21:32:04","slug":"telegraph-church-of-england-calls-for-fines-on-harmful-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78020","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England calls for fines on harmful social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giants should face multi-million fines if they fail to take down damaging content that leads children to suffer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/06\/10\/time-social-media-protect-children\/\">self-harm, bullying or emotional distress<\/a>, the Church of England says today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/07\/04\/duty-care-church-england-attacks-irresponsible-social-media\/\">The bishop who has led the Church\u2019s campaigns on social media<\/a>&nbsp;said the Government should introduce regulations similar to Germany\u2019s where firms face fines of up to 50m Euros (\u00a344m) if they fail to delete posts within 24 hours of a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the Church has thrown its weight behind a duty of care &#8211; a centrepiece of The Telegraph\u2019s campaign social media &#8211; that would give children the same protections online as they get in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2019\/01\/31\/social-media-giants-should-face-fines-online-harms-says-church\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishGloucester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BishGloucester<\/a> is calling for fines for social media companies that fail to take down damaging content that leads children to suffer self-harm, bullying or distress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0lg6ci785r\">https:\/\/t.co\/0lg6ci785r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gsbb55bqYf\">pic.twitter.com\/Gsbb55bqYf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gloucester Diocese (@GlosDioc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlosDioc\/status\/1091292081878953986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giants should face multi-million fines if they fail to take down damaging content that leads children to suffer&nbsp;self-harm, bullying or emotional distress, the Church of England says today. The bishop who has led the Church\u2019s campaigns on social<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78020\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,94,101,589,199,168,108,95,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78022,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions\/78022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}