Damian Collins
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 51 |
| Date of birth | February 4,1974 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Northampton |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Sarah Richardson |
| Party | Conservative Party |
| Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Books | Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon |
| Football (Financial Transparency) Bill | |
| Official site | parliament.uk |
| Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Movies/Shows | The Great Hack |
| Education | University of Oxford |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 415211 |
Damian Collins Life story
Damian Noel Thomas Collins is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe since the 2010 general election. Collins chairs the UK Parliament Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill.
X Corp sues anti-hate campaigners over Twitter research
... Conservative MP Damian Collins serves on its UK board...
Twitter accused of bullying anti-hate campaigners
... Damian Collins, a British MP on the UK board of CCDH, said Elon Musk s commitment to free speech didn t seem to apply when his firm was criticised...
King's Birthday Honours: Ian Wright, Ken Bruce and Davina McCall on list
... Other politicians recognised in this year s list include Conservative MP Bob Blackman and Welsh government minister Jane Hutt, who are made CBEs, while MPs Damian Collins and Heather Wheeler are also made OBEs...
Dover: Council will declare 'major incident' if travel disruption persists
... Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins told BBC South East the former Manston Airport site ought to be considered as a holding site for lorries again...
Channel 4 stars speak out on privatisation plan
... But Conservative MP Damian Collins, former chair of the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said he supported privatisation because the channel s spending on programme-making had declined in recent years...
Online Safety Bill: New offences and tighter rules
... Damian Collins, chairman of the joint committee issuing the report, said: " What s illegal offline should be regulated online...
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen faces UK Parliament
... The chair of the committee, MP Damian Collins, said it " will establish a new era of regulation for tech platforms which will make them accountable"...
Can Online Safety Bill tackle social media abuse of MPs?
... Tory MP and chair of the committee scrutinising the draft of the Online Safety Bill, Damian Collins, is angry about the growing amounts of abuse towards MPs, calling it a But he still doesn t think anonymity should be taken away from social media users...
Twitter accused of bullying anti-hate campaigners
By Chris VallanceTechnology reporter, BBC News
The owners of Twitter have been accused of trying to " bully" anti-hate campaigners into silence with letters threatening legal action.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said X Corp accused it of making " troubling and baseless claims" in its reports about The Platform .
Elon Musk bought The Platform Last Year promising to defend free speech.
Imran Ahmed, CCDH chief executive, said Mr Musk's actions were " a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism".
Twitter was by Mr Musk just over a week ago. The old Twitter sign from its headquarters and an " X" placed on The Roof .
Since Mr Musk took over Twitter, The Platform has been accused - including by former employees - of not doing enough to counter hate-speech and misinformation. Conversely, in December Mr Musk tweeted that hate speech was down by a third.
On Sunday The Platform after an almost eight-month ban for a series of offensive tweets - One of which appeared to show a symbol combining a swastika and The Star of David.
In The Letter to the CCDH, X Corp lawyer Alex Spiro rejected The Campaign group's allegations that Twitter " fails to act on 99%" of hateful messages from accounts with Twitter Blue subscriptions.
Mr Spiro criticised the organisation's methodology, writing that " the article is little More Than a series of inflammatory, misleading, and unsupported claims based on a cursory review of random tweets. "
He also alleged that CCDH was supported by funding from " X Corp's commercial competitors, as well as government entities and their affiliates".
The Letter accused the organisation of attempting to drive away advertisers and said X Corp was considering legal action. The Company has lost lost almost half of its advertising revenue since his $44bn (£33. 6bn) takeover, Mr Musk.
In its reply CCDH's lawyer Robert A. Kaplan said the allegations in the " ridiculous letter" had no basis in fact but were " a disturbing effort to intimidate those who have the courage to advocate against incitement, hate speech and harmful content online".
CCDH says it does not accept funding from Social Media companies nor government bodies, " both of whom we praise or criticise without fear or favour".
British politicians backed CCDH for its work on highlighting hate speech on Social Media .
Damian Collins , a British MP on the UK board of CCDH, said Elon Musk 's commitment to free speech didn't seem to apply when his firm was criticised.
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The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell MP said that CCDH " does vitally important work tackling hate online and calling out platforms which fail to counter dis- and misinformation on their sites".
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