The UK updates its Online Safety Bill proposal to outlaw content featuring revenge porn, drug and weapons dealing, suicide promotion, people smuggling, and more
- Britain's landmark Online Safety Bill seeks to combat the spread of harmful and illegal content on social media sites including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.
It's taken a long time to get here but the Online Safety Bill is being strengthened to prevent encouragement of suicide. Tech companies need to champion social responsibility as well as freedoms. https://twitter.com/...
NEWS: Online Safety Bill strengthened 👉New criminal offences added 👉More accountability for social media companies 👉Enabling @Ofcom to act more quickly @NadineDorries adds measures to make the UK a safer place to be online #SafeOnline https://www.gov.uk/...
Looks like the UK wants to stamp out a wide variety of online speech here. Making it illegal to have content “promoting suicide” likely means that all sorts of resources to *help* people who are depressed will disappear from the internet to avoid risk https://www.gov.uk/...
I have low confidence that this bill is going to work as intended. Abuse really needs to be defined, who is committing the act of “pile on” and who is liable??? 🤔 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Three years after they started working on it, DCMS has decided to move the goalposts on what the #OnlineSafetyBill will be about, based on the demands of *reads list* lobbyists and celebrities. https://www.gov.uk/...