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The world’s most popular paid music streaming service said political advertising pause would extend to Spotify original and exclusive podcasts as well.
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Communications has highlighted what the committee believes is the need to amend some media regulations to improve the monitoring of platforms like podcasts.
Khusela Diko says most of the country’s laws are outdated.
Diko has also highlighted what she says is the need to establish institutions that will monitor platforms like podcasts.
She says most of the people who become victims of hate speech through podcasts often find themselves without proper channels to file complaints.
“South Africans should have accessible ways of being able to raise the issues with podcasts. You’ll see in recent time that there have been people who have gone to the courts for example, either raising hate speech or raising defamation. But not everybody has that sort of money laying around for them to be able to lay such complaints. So, whether we then expand online content like podcasts to the broadcasting in South Africa, that would be one option to immediately bring them into the ambit of the law,” says Diko.
