The Wall Street Journal reports both France and India are doing their parts in the global push to regulate big tech companies. The French government is giving its regulators free rein regarding the power to audit and punish social media companies for their failure to remove hateful content from their platforms. According to the French proposals, an independent regulator will be given the power to verify that companies have safeguards against the publication of hate speech. Meanwhile, India's competition authorities are investigating whether Alphabet, Google's parent company, is using its mobile-operating systems to block rivals and hinder competition. Regulation is also a threat to YouTube, which is concerned with liability standards created by the new EU copyright directive. YouTube is pushing back against the directive, which states that a platform is liable for any user copyright infringement. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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