Does the Metaverse Need Laws?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Can you enforce laws in cyberspace like you can in the real world? Facebook, now Meta, has struggled to moderate its massive platforms for over a decade, battling with national governments over how it should be regulated. Now, it's preparing to be the biggest player in a new arena - the Metaverse. Lorna Woods, professor of Internet Law, joins Ros Taylor: “The one thing we can say about the metaverse, is that it won't be what we think it is.” “Have we thought about how this service can be misused? Rather than sitting in a phase of techno-optimism about the whole thing.” “The transient nature of the content might be good, as you won't have those long shadows cast over you.” “If we want to see this freeing capacity of the metaverse then we don't want to be tied to one identity.” “We're going to have to think more broadly about how we're going to safeguard.” Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant Producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Alex Rees. Original music by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.3	deranged enough but what's going to happen when we start to spend more time in the
1:17.8	metaverse do we even know what an earth it will look like with me to talk about
1:22.1	the rules we may soon be making to govern ourselves in the
1:24.8	Metaverse is Lorna Woods, professor of Internet law at the University of Essex.
1:30.0	Lorna, welcome to the bunker.
1:31.5	Thank you for inviting me.
1:33.1	Nick Clegg of Meta said in an essay which has just come out, he's just written it,
1:38.0	we must create thoughtful rules and put guardrails into place as the Metaphirth developed to maximize its potential for good
1:44.7	and minimize the potential harms, which of course is exactly what you would expect him to say.
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