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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".
The government says the online safety bill passed this week will make Britain the safest place in the world to be online. The new law is the U.K.’s contribution to efforts in Europe and ...
Internet safety legislation that will require social media companies to keep children safe online has passed into law in the UK. The Online Safety Act received royal assent in Parliament on ...
Passed in late 2023, the Online Safety Act is the UK’s first major legislation to regulate social media, search engine, messaging, gaming, dating, pornography and file-sharing platforms.
Online Safety Bill may refer to: Online Safety Act 2023, 2023 United Kingdom legislation; Online Safety Bill (Sri Lanka), 2024 Sri Lanka legislation;
Some politicians and online safety campaigners have repeatedly called for more to be done to protect children from the swathes of harmful content online – including having the Online Safety Bill ...
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 group opposes measures in the draft Online Safety Bill introduced in 2021, that it sees as infringing free speech rights and online anonymity. [14] [15] [16] The group campaigns against the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's plan to switch to an opt-out model for cookies. The group spokesperson stated that "[t]he UK ...