Prince Harry Demands Big Tech Increases Censorship
A 'global humanitarian issue'
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Prince Harry has demanded Big Tech giants fight "fake news" by imposing even more censorship.
The British royal gave a 15-point list of demands to drive leaders to remove even more free speech.
Harry said misinformation was a “global humanitarian issue” and the “superspreaders” must be held accountable “regardless of location, or political views, or role in society."
The prince was involved in a six-month study on the state of the U.S. media conducted by the Aspen Institute’s new Commission on Information Disorder.
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The multi-millionaire royal was one of the 15 commissioners on the report who contributed via research and working groups.
Others included the co-founder of the Quadrivium Foundation, Kathryn Murdoch, and her husband James Murdoch.
U.S. TV journalist Katie Couri, who was also part of the team, who has spent two years calling the world to account for a host of issues.
The Archewell website details 15 key recommendations “for leaders to consider adopting across the public, private, and non-profit sectors.”
The report demands “a new proposal regarding social media platform immunity” and ideas needed to stop the collapse of local journalism and the erosion of trusted media.
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It demands leaders do the following:
Hold superspreaders of mis- and disinformation to account with clear, transparent, and consistently applied policies that enable quicker, more decisive actions and penalties, commensurate with their impacts — regardless of location, or political views, or role in society.
Harry said of the report:
“For the better part of a year, we at the Aspen Commission have met regularly to debate, discuss, and draft solutions to the mis- and disinformation crisis, which is a global humanitarian issue."
“I hope to see the substantive and practical recommendations of our Commission taken up by the tech industry, the media industry, by policymakers, and leaders."
"This affects not some of us, but all of us.”
Earlier this year, Joe Biden revoked Donald Trump's executive order targeting Big Tech's online censorship.
Trump wanted interactive computer services like Twitter, Facebook, and Google to be held responsible for content posted to their platforms.
In Executive Order 13925 of May 28, 2020, Trump wrote:
"The policy of the United States should be that “an internet provider be exposed to liability like any traditional editor and publisher that is not an online provider.”
