Online Safety Bill: divisive internet rules become law

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  The new law puts the onus on firms to protect children from some legal but harmful material, with the regulator, Ofcom, being given extra enforcement powers.

  Other new offences have been created, including cyber-flashing - sending unsolicited sexual imagery online - and the sharing of “deepfake” pornography, where AI is used to insert someone’s likeness into pornographic material.

  “The internet as we know it faces a very real threat,” said Proton CEO Andy Yen, who says the bills gives the government the power to access people’s private messages.

  Campaigners have included Ian Russell, whose 14-year-old daughter Molly took her own life in 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content online on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest.

  However, fact-checking organisation Full Fact, which supported the bill, said “retrograde changes” made to it meant it did not go far enough “to address the way that platforms treat harmful misinformation and disinformation.”

  Full Fact’s head of policy and advocacy Glen Tarman continued: “Our freedom of expression is left in the hands of self-interested internet companies, while dangerous health misinformation is allowed to spread rampant.”

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