In the meanwhile, Ofcom is getting on with regulating the subset of digital services it can. So the bill’s fate - like the government’s - remains tbc. (Just before new prime minister, Liz Truss, unleashed a flurry of radical libertarian economic policies that succeeded in spooking the financial markets and parking her fledgling authority, generating a fresh domestic political crisis.
The draft Online Safety bill, which sets up Ofcom as the U.K.’s chief internet content regulator, had already attracted plenty of controversy - and become cluttered with add-ons and amendments - before it got parked by new secretary of state for digital, Michelle Donelan, last month. Which means the VSP regulation may end up sticking around longer (and doing more heavy lifting) than originally envisaged - if, as now looks likely, it takes the government rather more time than was originally envisaged to legislate for the wider online safety rules that ministers have been planning since 2018. There are questions about whether the Online Safety Bill will/can survive the U.K.’s stormy domestic politic situation. UK to change Online Safety Bill limits on ‘legal but harmful’ content for adults prime minister, and her freshly appointed minister heading up digital issues, paused the draft legislation last month saying they wanted to tweak the approach in response to freedom of expression concerns. It’s a taster of a broader (and more controversial) online content regulation that’s been years in the making - aka the Online Safety Bill - which remains in limbo after the new U.K. The U.K.’s media watchdog, Ofcom, has published a debut report on its first year regulating a selection of video-sharing platforms (VSPs) - including TikTok, Snapchat, Twitch, Vimeo and OnlyFans - following the introduction of content-handling rules aimed at protecting minors and others from viewing harmful user-generated video content online.Īs well aiming to shrink the risk of minors being exposed to age-inappropriate content (an area the U.K.’s data protection watchdog also has under watch), the VSP regulation requires in-scope Internet platforms to take steps to protect all their users from content likely to incite violence or hatred against protected groups or which would be considered a criminal offence under laws related to terrorism, child sexual abuse material, racism and xenophobia.
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