The U.K. government has introduced an online safety bill that aims to strike a balance between holding tech firms more accountable and preserving robust free speech
in draft form in May 2021. Since then, changes have been made to strengthen its provisions, including:, including commercial sites, require that users are 18 years old or over.
Adding new measures that give people more control over who can contact them and what they see online, as part of an effort to limit the reach of anonymous trolls.Between the lines : With Britain now separate from the EU, it sees an opportunity to provide another voice in the debate over how best to regulate technology, envisioning itself ideologically as somewhere between the permissiveness of the U.S. and the paternalism of the EU.: "Tech firms haven’t been held to account when harm, abuse and criminal behaviour have run riot on their platforms. Instead they have been left to mark their own homework," U.K. Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries said in a statement.