Updates to laws: The new bill

The new bill will aim to protect the public, shield children from illegal content and helping adult users and harmful but not illegal content on big platforms. 

Primary priority content:

Pornography and the promotion of suicide and eating disorders. Aim to stop children seeing this content age checks will be put in places. 

priority Content: 

Bullying and post that encourage to take part in dangers stunts or challenges, Children in age groups judge to be at harm from such content, An area where risk assessment will be key- must be protected from enchanting this kind of material., Ofcom will set out guidelines. 

Molly Russell:

14 year old girl who took her life, after her death they found she Benn been viewing thousands of images promoting suicide and self harm. Her dad then began to campaign to remove this from platforms. 

Illegal Content: 

Priority content offences include child sexual abuse material terrorist content revenge or extreme pornography and threats to kill. 

The act wants this sort of content to be proactively targeted by platform moderation systems and processes. 

Protecting adults from harmful content:

This includes material related to suicide, self-harm and abuse targeted at proceed characteristics under the equality Act. (such as age, race and sex) 

Platform need to assess how much of that content is on their platform and put in place way of shielding users from content. 

Pornographic content: 

sites that include ANY pornographic content will now require age verification, which will include taking a selfie and providing formal identification which matches up with identifying technology. 

Cyber-Flashing and the taking and sharing of explicit images: 

Sending an unsolicited explicit images is now an illegal act. It is also illegal to share an explicit image that you have been sent or you have taken. 

this will include: Revenge porn, Deepfakes and up skirting and down blouses. 

In order to combat child sexual abuse material, Ofcom have been empowered to order a message service to use technology to look for and take down such content. 

Privacy campaigners and tech firms have warned that the Claus poses a fundamental threat to end to end encrypted messaging where only the sender and recipients can read the massages. 

Tech Executives will be responsible when rules are broken. There will be a 2 year monitory jail sentence and  £18m fine or 10% of companies profit for the year.