Measures which would have forced big technology platforms to remove “legal but harmful” material have been axed from the Online Safety Bill ⬇️ emsferg explains
after viewing social media content linked to depression, self-harm and suicide. A coroner ruled that she died after suffering “negative effects of online content.”
This requires platforms to: remove illegal content, remove material that violates their terms and conditions and give users controls to help them avoid seeing certain types of content to be specified by the Bill. “We have not taken anything out of this Bill for children,” she told Times Radio. “What we have done is add more in for children and we’ve strengthened it.”
The Victim’s Commissioner, Domestic Abuse Commissioner and Children’s Commissioner will be added as statutory consultees to the Bill, meaning that Ofcom must consult them with drafting new codes of conduct it will create that tech firms must follow in order to comply with the Bill.
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