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🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to New World next week. |
0:11.4 | I'm James Corbett at Corporate Report.com. |
0:13.0 | And I'm James Evan Powato from Mediamonickey.com, though shouting no fire, ought to be silenced. |
0:19.3 | We've got that story plus selection interference, but first on this |
0:22.5 | ban everything episode, posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become a criminal |
0:29.7 | offense. This coming from the telegraph posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could |
0:35.1 | become a criminal offense, even if those promoting it believe |
0:38.5 | the pseudoscience. The UK's new criminal law commissioner has said, in her first interview since |
0:44.3 | taken up the gig, Penny Lewis revealed she is considering whether law should be amended to lower |
0:49.3 | the threshold of criminality for posting false information online that endangers lives. It comes, as the health |
0:56.7 | secretary Matt Hancock said back in September, he was looking very seriously at making vaccinations |
1:01.9 | compulsory for state school pupils after the UK lost its official measles-free country status |
1:08.7 | due to a steady fall in those fantastic MMR immunization rates. |
1:13.6 | Currently, people are protected from prosecution if they sincerely believe the misinformation |
1:18.3 | they publish under laws designed more to tackle bomb hoaxes than internet health conspiracies, |
1:24.4 | and we're glad you're enjoying the Tegraph register or subscribe to continue reading james |
1:28.6 | the paywall has dropped upon us but i think we get the idea from penny lewis here and we've seen |
1:34.9 | all of these moves as they've essentially they've already been telegraphed james a telegraphed |
1:41.2 | nice one actually i managed to save the article before it got paywalled, so I have the rest of it. |
1:45.7 | Not that there's that much more information. |
1:47.7 | I think you get the gist of it. |
1:49.3 | Essentially, yes, the UK government is looking into the idea of making anti-vax propaganda |
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