UK government to toughen Online Safety Act to combat self-harm content targeting all ages
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Summary
The UK government announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by amending it to make self-harm content a 'priority offence'. This will legally require tech companies to proactively hunt down and remove material that encourages or assists serious self-harm, protecting vulnerable people of all ages from devastating content before it can cause harm.
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· 3 pulledVulnerable people to be protected from self-harm content as Online Safety laws to be toughened.
Tech companies to be legally required to prevent this content from appearing in the first place, protecting users of all ages.
The government has today announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material that encourages or assists serious self-harm, before it can destroy lives.
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