The internet 's largest social media and tech firms will implement voluntary self - regulation to avoid rising online contempt of workplace incidents in the UK . additionally , Google and Twitter have agreed to allow officials working for the uk 's attorney general to remove problematic online comments which they will request to be removed . The firms in particular are not under a legal obligation to submit to the requests and will consider each incident on a case - by - case basis .
The internet's largest social media and tech firms will implement voluntary self-regulation to avoid rising online contempt of court incidents in the UK. Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to allow officials working for the UK's solicitor general to identify problematic online comments which they will request to be removed. The firms in question are not under a legal obligation to submit to the requests and will consider each incident on a case-by-case basis.