‘Micromanaging each line of content,’ not the best regulatory approach: Facebook’s Nick Clegg

Defending Facebook’s approach to how it monitors hate speech on the platform, Nick Clegg, Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications said a regulatory approach, which tries to ‘micromanage’ each line of content or every single post is not the best one. “We are very responsive to law enforcement requests in India or elsewhere for cooperation,” Clegg said at Facebook’s two-day Fuel for India event Tuesday.

He said the regulatory approach should try and “hold companies like Facebook accountable to the…systems and the policies that they (social media companies) have in place,” adding that a regulation which does not “hinder the way in which the international economy now relies on international data flows,” is the “sensible overall approach.”