This is an automatic English translation of the Dutch original.
The primary task of a government is to protect its citizens. In that duty of care, the government falls short online. Threats, intimidation, hate and anti-democratic ideas are given too much room on social media. The big social media companies take too few measures, and respond casually to reports.
On 4 March we are taking part in the round-table discussion on Social media and interference in the House of Representatives. To the conclusions above we attach two recommendations:
- Fulfil the government’s duty of care to protect citizens
- Force social media to be held accountable
For each recommendation we have set out several courses of action in our position paper.
Since high fines evidently make little difference, we propose more serious consequences. These include a ban on personalised advertising, on trading in personalised data, or an outright ban on access to our market when social media fail to comply with the law.
