Joint parliamentary committee supports move to introduce criminal sanctions for senior management figures at technology companies.
While assisting or encouraging suicide is a criminal offence in England and Wales, the committee called for it to equally be considered illegal content online and that the technology companies should protect their users from being exposed to it.The report cautioned against blaming the ability for people to communicate anonymously online for the abuse suffered by footballers and women in the public life.
The committee said that being able to post online without revealing your identity was"crucial to online safety for marginalised groups, for whistle-blowers, and for victims of domestic abuse and other forms of offline violence". The report also recommends that individual users should be able to make complaints to an ombudsman when they find platforms are failing to comply with the Online Safety law.
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