Govt could decide web standards
E-commerce
11 June 2008
The government should take an interest in web standards as it does with television, the culture secretary, Andy Burnham has said.
He told a government meeting on converging technology, internet video clips, which have huge popularity, are little different to those on television and should be monitored, the Guardian reported.
"If a clip on YouTube gets a million hits, it is akin to broadcasting and it doesn't seem to me to be too difficult to have an alert on that clip with regards to language or violence or for sex," he told the meeting.
"I didn't come here today to see what is a vote winner. I am taking the longer view," the paper reported him saying.
"I just sense the moment in time where people need to have this kind of discussion about the online world."
The internet industry has long preferred a system of self-regulation and optional parental controls to censorship.
On-demand video players, such as the BBC's iPlayer are offering TV content and blurring the boundaries between the media.
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