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The Online Safety Act 2023 [1] [2] [3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online speech and media. It passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of speech and media deemed "harmful".
Between 2021 and 2024 the role was known as parliamentary under-secretary of state for Tech and the Digital Economy.The position was originally part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport but was moved to the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in the February 2023 cabinet reshuffle.
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 ...
UK laws on internet safety are "very uneven" and "unsatisfactory", Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has said, following calls from campaigners to tighten the rules. On Saturday, Ian Russell, the ...
Six years in the making, the U.K.’s Online Safety Bill is now a done deal. The country’s House of Lords passed it yesterday, so it will receive royal assent and pass into law in the coming days.
The new internet safety rules will be overseen by Ofcom.
Online Safety Bill may refer to: Online Safety Act 2023, 2023 United Kingdom legislation; Online Safety Bill (Sri Lanka), 2024 Sri Lanka legislation;
The Online Safety Bill is currently making its way through Parliament and the Government has published a range of initial proposed amendments to the Bill, including cracking down further on ...