Proposals hand Ofcom the power to identify ‘lawful but harmful’ content and punish social networks that fail to remove it
Long-awaited proposals to regulate
Social Media are a “recipe for censorship”, campaigners have said, and fly in the face of the government’s attempts to strengthen free speech elsewhere in
Britain.
The online safety bill, introduced to parliament on Wednesday, hands Ofcom the power to punish social networks that fail to remove “lawful but harmful” content. The proposals were welcomed by children’s safety campaigns, but have come under
fire from civil liberties organisations.