Under a new law proposed in the UK, tech companies will have to proactively remove anything that is deemed “harmful content”, but it is still unclear what this will include.
The final draft of the UK government’s long-awaited legislation designed to protect people from “harmful” content on the internet is today being presented to Parliament.
that tech firms “haven’t been held to account when harm, abuse and criminal behaviour have run riot on their platforms”. But it remains unclear how government will decide what is, and what is not, “harmful” and how technology companies will moderate content according to those decisions.The legislation is wide-ranging. There will be new criminal offences for individuals, targeting so-called “cyberflashing” – sending unsolicited graphic images – and online bullying.
Online platforms will also have to proactively remove anything that is deemed “harmful content” – details of what this includes remain unclear, but the announcement today mentioned the examples “self-harm, harassment and eating disorders”.asked at the time what would be included in the list of illegal searches, and was told no such list yet existed, and that “companies will need to design and operate their services to be safe by design and prevent users encountering illegal content.
He also points out that tech-savvy children will be able to use VPNs, the Tor browser and other tricks to easily get around the measures relating to age verification and user identity.
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