MPs call for online safety bill overhaul to protect children and penalise tech firms

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MPs call for online safety bill overhaul to protect children and penalise tech firms
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Committee’s report says sweeping changes needed to tackle an industry that has become the ‘land of the lawless’

needs a sweeping overhaul to prevent children from accessing pornography, vulnerable people from being encouraged to commit self-harm and negligent tech chiefs from failing to protect users, according to a committee of MPs and peers.

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