FPB withdraws regulations that forced ISPs to police misinformation

[Jan]

FPB scraps rules about policing Internet misinformation after legal threats

The Film and Publications Board (FPB) has scrapped recently introduced regulations that would have forced South African Internet service providers and social media platform owners to police their content for disinformation and misinformation or face criminal penalties.

The controversial rules were withdrawn in a notice published in the national government gazette on 26 April 2024, signed by the FPB's acting chief executive officer (CEO), Ephraim Tlhako, on 11 April 2024.

 

[Polymathic]

I'm not racist but that guy has a passing to resemblance to a well-groomed Julius Malema.

 

[deweyzeph]

Great, now scrap the entire FPB too. Completely unnecessary and pointless organisation that is still a relic from the Apartheid days.

 

[3WA]

Film and Publications Board (FPB) has scrapped recently introduced regulations that would have forced South African Internet service providers and social media platform owners to police their content for disinformation and misinformation or face criminal penalties.

Cool Ideas just breathed a sigh of relief.

 

[theMysteriousWanderer]

The people who give their child a name like Ephriam must have lofty ambitions for their child. They must believe that he would escape the garden work one day and grow to become the person who drives the landscaping business Hilux Bakkie

 

[Gaz{M}]

The MPC better scrap this useless organisation when they take over on 30 May.