Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 16
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Apply the Video-on-Demand Code consistently to all Video-on-Demand services, not just the largest.
Recommendation
The Government has said that it wants audiences to be confident that all content, however they consume it, is subject to the same regulation. Requiring only the largest Video-on-Demand providers to abide by the new Code does not achieve that aim. While the Government believes that it would be disproportionate and restrict freedom of speech if all platforms were designated, to not do so undermines the regulatory principle that the Government is seeking to deliver. We recommend that, in the same way that the Broadcasting Code applies to all broadcasters, the Video-on- Demand Code should apply to all Video-on-Demand services.
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95