On March 17, 2022, lawmakers introduced the Online Safety BIll to Parliament. The proposed regulation would grant Ofcom the power to fine non-compliant companies, force them to improve their practices, and block non-compliant sites. Since its first draft in May 2021, the Bill now includes changes to...
One of the more perplexing provisions of the draft Online Safety Bill is its multi-level definition of legal but harmful content (lawful but awful content, to give it its colloquial name).
The proposal that service providers’ safety duties under the Bill should apply to such content is in itself...
Two years on from the April 2019 Online Harms White Paper, the government has published its draft Online Safety Bill. It is a hefty beast: 133 pages and 141 sections. It raises a slew of questions, not least around press and journalistic material and the newly-coined “content of democratic...
So that's the price of a US trade deal. The authorities from the other side of the pond have made it clear what they're looking for as the UK enters its last week of being properly within the EU. From Mediapost.
Attempts to rein in the internet will take a step closer later this month when the UK government gives its official response to its Online Harms White Paper published in April 2019. The government's move - one of the first by the new Conservative administration - comes after it received over 2,000...
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the US Congress this spring he insisted he was not running a media company. But it is getting easier to say why he does. Facebook, the site Mr Zuckerberg founded almost 15 years ago, hosts and produces content. From The Guardian.
INTERNET COMPANIES have today outlined a number of ways in which the government’s Online Harms White Paper can be improved. In a new submission to government, Internet Association (IA) sets out how the plans as currently constituted could hold back the British tech sector, worsen the quality of...
Last Monday, having spent the best part of a day reading the UK government's Online Harms White Paper, I concluded that if the road to hell was paved with good intentions, this was a motorway.
Nearly two weeks on, after full and further consideration, I have found nothing to alter that view. This...
The UK government has just outlined its plans for sweeping new laws aimed at tackling illegal and harmful content and activity online, described by the government as ‘the toughest internet laws in the world’. While the UK proposal has some promising ideas for what the next generation of content...
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has proposed an independent watchdog that will write a "code of practice" for tech companies.
Senior managers could be held liable for breaches, with a possible levy on the industry to fund the regulator. From BBC News.