United Kingdom: Amended Online Safety Bill including new measures for harmful content regulation and minor protection
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Amended Online Safety Bill including new measures for harmful content regulation and minor protection
On 5 December 2022, amendments to the Online Safety Bill were made before the UK Parliament. The amended Bill replaces the "legal but harmful" approach to online safety with the so-called "triple shield", which requires service providers to remove illegal content and content that violates terms of service, and provide adult users with wider control over the content that is shown. Notably, the amended Bill removes the "harmful communications offence" that was included in the previous version of the Bill.
Original sourceScope
Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
Complete timeline of this policy change
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2021-05-12
under deliberation
2021-12-14
under deliberation
2022-03-17
under deliberation
2022-04-20
in consultation
2022-06-30
processing consultation
2022-11-28
under deliberation
2022-12-05
under deliberation
2023-01-17
under deliberation
2023-06-27
under deliberation
2023-09-19
adopted
2023-10-26
in grace period