One of Facebook’s top executives added his voice to the growing movement among technology firms that the sector cannot police the internet on its own. And in a statement that Facebook itself acknowledges may seem “counterintuitive,” the world’s biggest social media firm says that it “wants to be regulated”—so long as the rules are “smart.”
In a speech in Berlin on Monday, Sir Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications and a former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, said that because “the internet wasn’t planned” and that there were “no blueprints” as to how tech firms should be regulated, “this new world requires new rules to be written.”
