Some campaigners backing tough new Internet rules have been pressing the government to include the threat of criminal sanctions for CEOs to concentrate C-suite minds on anti-harms compliance. The regulator will also get the power to block access to sites - so the potential for censoring entire platforms is baked in. It will have powers to sanction companies that fail in the new duty of care toward users by hitting them with fines of up to £18M or ten per cent of annual global turnover (whichever is higher). Ofcom, the UK’s comms regulator - which is responsible for regulating the broadcast media and telecoms sectors - is set to become the UK Internet’s content watchdog too, under the plan. There will also be requirements for reporting child sexual exploitation content to law enforcement. In scope services will face a legal requirement to remove and/or limit the spread of illegal and (in the case of larger services) harmful content, with the risk of major penalties for failing in this new duty of care toward users. The laws are set to apply widely - not just to tech giants or social media sites but to a broad swathe of websites, apps and services that host user-generated content or just allow people to talk to others online. In a press release about the plan, the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) claimed the “landmark laws” will “keep children safe, stop racial hate and protect democracy online”.īut as that grab-bag of headline goals implies there’s an awful lot going on here - and huge potential for things to go wrong if the end result is an incoherent mess of contradictory rules that make it harder for digital businesses to operate and for Internet users to access the content they need. And there are certainly question-marks over who the future winners and losers of the UK’s Online Safety laws will be. In a bit of a Freudian slip, the DCMS’ own PR talks about “the government’s fight to make the internet safe”.
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The length of time it’s taken for the government to draft the Online Safety Bill underscores the legislative challenge involved in trying to ‘regulate the Internet’.
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“We will protect children on the internet, crack down on racist abuse on social media and through new measures to safeguard our liberties, create a truly democratic digital age.” How long it might take to hit the statute books isn’t clear but the government has a large majority in parliament so, failing major public uproar and/or mass opposition within its own ranks, the Online Safety Bill has a clear road to becoming law.Ĭommenting in a statement, digital secretary Oliver Dowden said: “Today the UK shows global leadership with our groundbreaking laws to usher in a new age of accountability for tech and bring fairness and accountability to the online world.
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The bill will be scrutinised by a joint committee of MPs - before a final version is formally introduced to Parliament for debate later this year. The government dubs the plan globally “groundbreaking” and claims it will usher in “a new age of accountability for tech and bring fairness and accountability to the online world”.Ĭritics warn the proposals will harm freedom of expression by encouraging platforms to over-censor, while also creating major legal and operational headaches for digital businesses that will discourage tech innovation. The draft legislation imposes a duty of care on digital service providers to moderate user generated content in a way that prevents users from being exposed to illegal and/or harmful stuff online. The 145-page Online Safety Bill can be found here on the gov.uk website - along with 123 pages of explanatory notes and an 146-page impact assessment.