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The Online Harms White Paper is a white paper produced by the British government in April 2019. [1] It lays out the government's proposals on dealing with "online harms", which it defines as "online content or activity that harms individual users, particularly children, or threatens our way of life in the UK, either by undermining national security, or by reducing trust and undermining our ...
On 16 October 2019, the Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan stated that the government had abandoned the mandate altogether, in favour of replacing it with a forthcoming wider scheme of Internet regulation based on the principles expressed in the Online Harms White Paper.
In 2019, the EFF and OTI delivered testimony about the Online Harms White Paper in the United Kingdom. They commented that several proposals to increase the amount of regulation on social media were open to abuse. [35] Also in 2019, the EFF launched the website "TOSsed out" to document cases of moderation rules being applied inconsistently.
Alex Davies-Jones MP asked Sarah Connolly, director of security and online harms at DCMS, whether they had considered how to tackle the problem of niche social media platforms such as Gab, 4Chan ...
Building on the Online Harms White Paper, in 2021 the UK government under Boris Johnson published a draft Online Safety Bill establishing a statutory duty of care of online platforms towards their users. Enacted in October 2023, the bill imposes substantial fines on online platforms that fail to take action against illegal and "legal but ...
The children’s charity has launched a new partnership with a US-based safety group to lobby for child safety rules in the development of AI tools.
Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 S.3663: February 16, 2022 Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) 13 Referred to committees of jurisdiction, but never saw a floor vote. 118th Congress: Kids Online Safety Act of 2023 H.R. 7891: April 19, 2023 Gus M. Bilirakis (R‑FL 12th) 64 Referred to committees of jurisdiction and advanced, but never saw a House floor ...
The long-delayed Online Safety Bill has still not made it to Parliament, but a joint committee of MPs and peers have now urged ministers to toughen up the draft Bill to hold tech firms to account.