Jeremy Darroch wants Ofcom, the regulator, to impose a “duty of care” obligation on online platforms ANDREA SOUTHAM/SKYBritain must create a powerful new watchdog to protect internet users from online abuse, according to the boss of Sky, the pay-TV group. Jeremy Darroch said that ministers must act urgently to rein in the worst excesses of online platforms, whose powers have been left unchecked for the past two decades. Writing in The Times today, Mr Darroch says that the technology giants cannot be trusted to hold themselves to account. “The promise of self-regulation hasn’t worked,” Mr Darroch writes. Mr Darroch, 57, who has run Sky since 2007, has…

Source: The Times January 15, 2020 23:59 UTC