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Tech Leaders Face Threat of Prison Under New UK Online Bill

BySheldon Wong

Mar 26, 2022
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Over the past few years, the progress that we have witnessed in every field has been unbelievable, and things have been changing fast. It is challenging to cope with change but not when it is a good chance. When it comes to transportation, there weren’t a lot of transportation routes available to the public, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Now, calling someone or dropping someone a message has become way more accessible than what it was like earlier. 

The main reason for this would have to be mobile phones. As smartphones were invented, people began experimenting and coming up with new start-up ideas for themselves that involved a lot of ideas for the different types of applications that could be made available. Soon, social media apps were a new rage, and it was all that everyone could talk about.

 Many different applications came under this category, and each one was different from the rest. If you consider the most famous applications, each of them is different from the other, and that’s what makes it so great. If you compare Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and all of these famous social media apps, you will start to realize how each one of them is so different in comparison to the other and why people love these applications so much. Now, there are a lot of users that each of these applications has, and the users couldn’t be happier with the services that they have been getting from their favorite applications.

Social media platforms and websites

Since the whole world started using the internet, it became great for people to connect because it got easier than one could even imagine. Still, along with that, some cons come along with the whole invention, and these are things that people have been experiencing themselves. As people started using the internet and social media platforms excessively, the number of people misusing these platforms also increased which made this platform unsafe for people to be themselves. Some people use these platforms just to spread more negativity, and that is the kind of thing that should always be avoided at any cost. It got tricky for people to feel safe on these platforms, and that is why necessary measures had to be taken to make it safe again.

New UK Bill to keep users safe

Out of all the places in the world, the United Kingdom took a stand for the users of the internet in their vicinity and made sure that they feel safe while they use the platform. Now, anyone misusing the internet has the threat of facing time in prison, and that ought to scare off those people who have been misusing the internet. The internet is supposed to be a safe platform, and we must make sure that we make the proper use of it and use it for necessary things, such as increasing our knowledge or connecting with people all over the world.

Sheldon Wong

Sheldon was a contributor on DMR. He has since left the team to pursue his career in the Insurance industry.