if you look at what the eu are doing, they re just . about to pass the digital markets act at european level, and that will do things - for consumers like improve competition in ways like i the apple payments monopoly. if you have apps, - if you make a payment, you have to use apple pay. the legislation at european level will mean that other. payment providers will be allowed to participate - in that environment, - charges will come down. so, it s things like that. it s more the commercial side of the tech power. l it is why is, you know, almost all advertising now routed - through google and facebook. that s not fair competition. there s lots to do around that, which is not really where the l online harms bill is orienting. well, can you give us a sense, then, of why it might happen? do you know why the government might have changed its mind on a policy that, if they have
changed their mind indeed, on a policy that was being trumpeted only a year or two ago? it can be various reasons, in my experience. - sometimes it is the weight of legislation that - has to be got through. dcms is very busy with the online harms bill, | with other legislation as well. it may have been thought that| it s too much for dcms to cope with and they ll have to wait another year for it. - it might be something else. it might be something - like the government might have become worriedj about the investment of the technology industry- in our market, that they might be concerned that, you know, too much regulation might. put off investment. that could be an issue. and, philip. sorry to interrupt. philip, you re nodding on that. you re in agreement with that, are you? well, the issue here is that if you re thinking about a google hq in kings cross and how many people that might employ, even though they re all working from home anyway, then you might have the investment argument
the latest headlines: president biden approves the deployment of three thousand troops to europe russia calls it an unjustified and destructive move. new zealand begins the phased re opening of its borders vaccinated citizens in australia can finally return home. a leading uk charity has said criticised parts of the government s online harms bill. the samaritans says the government needs to strengthen the proposed laws to ban websites advocating suicide. they re backed by the family ofjoe nihill who ended his life aged 23 after he found a website where other users told him how to buy poison. the government says the new bill will bring accountability to internet firms by giving them legal duties to protect uk users from harm. 0ur correspondent angus crawford has the story some viewers may find his report distressing. imagine a website where the sad and lonely learn how to die.
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and hopefully, with the online harms bill, we can start making these companies accountable. they make millions and millions of dollars from these apps and, as parents, we have no protection from them. stuart has been a victim of online abuse himself. the videos and messages he has been sent mocking 0lly s death are appallingly offensive. so shocking, we can t show any of them. there is this glorification around knives. you can die from a wound anywhere in your body if you were stabbed. because of the bleeding, the blood loss. what is happening in the uk now with knife crime is big, really, really big. we know how painful this is and if we can try and stop it for anybody else, that is what we would like to do. stuart and amanda make the short walk to the fields where 0lly died almost daily. they have planted a tree there in his memory. here we can come out as often as we want to and have