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    Home » Tech leaders would face prison if they don’t follow U.K. rules

    Tech leaders would face prison if they don’t follow U.K. rules

    By SHOOTThursday, March 17, 2022Updated:Tuesday, May 14, 2024No Comments955 Views
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    In this Sept. 28, 2020 file photo, a view of the TikTok app logo, in Tokyo. Senior managers at tech companies face up to two years in prison if they fail to comply with new British laws aimed at ensuring online safety for internet users, the U.K. government said Thursday as it unveiled the draft legislation in Parliament. The ambitious but controversial Online Safety Bill gives regulators wide ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

    By Kelvin Chan, Business Writer

    LONDON (AP) --

    Senior managers at tech companies would face up to two years in prison if they fail to comply with British rules aimed at ensuring online safety for internet users, the U.K. government said Thursday as it unveiled the draft legislation in Parliament.

    The ambitious but controversial online safety bill would give regulators wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.

    Authorities in the United Kingdom are the vanguard of a global movement to rein in the power of tech platforms and make them more responsible for harmful material such as child sex abuse, racist content, bullying, fraud and other harmful material that proliferates on their platforms. Similar efforts are underway in the European Union and United States.

    While the internet has transformed people's lives, "tech firms haven't been held to account when harm, abuse and criminal behavior have run riot on their platforms," U.K. Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries said in a statement. "If we fail to act, we risk sacrificing the wellbeing and innocence of countless generations of children to the power of unchecked algorithms."

    British lawmakers still need to vote to approve the bill before it becomes law.

    The government has toughened the legislation since it was first written after a committee of lawmakers recommended improvements. Changes include clamping down on anonymous trolls, requiring porn sites to verify users are 18 or older, and making cyberflashing — or sending someone unsolicited graphic images — a criminal offense.

    Tech executives would be criminally liable two months after the law takes force, instead of two years afterward as proposed in the original draft. Companies could be fined up to 10% of their annual global revenue for violations.

    There's also a wider range of criminal offenses that could result in prison sentences of up to two years in the updated draft.

    Initially, tech executives faced prison time for failing to quickly provide regulators with accurate information needed to assess whether their companies are complying with the rules.

    Now, they would also face it for suppressing, destroying or altering information requested or not cooperating with regulators, who have the power to enter a tech company's premises to inspect data and equipment and interview employees.

    The government said it will outline categories of harmful but legal material that the biggest online platforms such as Google and Facebook will have to tackle, instead of leaving it up to the "whim of internet executives."

    That's aimed at addressing concerns of digital activists who worried the law would crimp freedom of speech and expression because companies would be overzealous in removing material that upsets or offends people but isn't prohibited.

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    Prime Video brings familiar faces and new voices to NBA coverage

    Friday, July 11, 2025
    Broadcasters Reggie Miller, left, and Kevin Harlan, middle, during an NBA basketball game between the Golden State Warriors and the Minnesota Timberwolves in San Francisco, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Filer)

    Prime Video will have many familiar faces along with some new voices when it begins its first season of NBA coverage in October.

    Kevin Harlan, Ian Eagle and Stan Van Gundy are coming over from TNT while Cassidy Hubbarth is coming from ESPN.

    Harlan and Van Gundy were part of TNT's crew for its final NBA game on May 31, when the Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.

    Harlan was with TNT since 1996 while Van Gundy returned to being an analyst in 2021 after being fired as New Orleans' coach.

    Eagle, who has called Nets games since 1996, began doing national games for TNT in 2010.

    Prime Video will not have set announcing pairings or name an "A" or "B" team, but Eagle is likely to be the voice for the top games, including a conference finals series in 2027. He's also been the lead voice for CBS coverage of the men's NCAA Tournament the last two years.

    "We're not in a situation where we have like a single game of the week. We have two big games every week and more after the NFL season ends," said Jared Stacy, Prime Video's head of production. "So we're always going to sort of be living in this doubleheader world and we're treating every game like a big game. We like the ability to be flexible and try out different combinations as we go."

    Hubbarth not only worked games as a sideline reporter for ESPN, but served as a guest host on the network's NBA studio shows and also hosted the digital series "Hoop Streams."

    Prime Video also announced the additions of play-by-play announcers Michael Grady and Eric Collins, analysts Brent Barry and Dell Curry, and Allie Clifton and Kristina Pink as sideline reporters.

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