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What is the #OnlineSafetyBill actually intended to do?
2021-09-28 21:24:19+00:00
Inhibit Illegal and Harmful Content
The draft Online Safety Bill sets out proposals to impose a new duty of care on tech companies to tackle illegal and harmful content on their services.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-09-10.47057.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g47057.r0
Require “Vetting” of Financial Services Advertisers
The Online Safety Bill must be the right place to legislate to require the platforms to at least establish whether the investment companies—the people who are advertising investments—are bona fide organisations, and not simply people impersonating them.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-09-22b.313.2&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g330.2
Protect “Freedom of Expression”
The upcoming Online Safety Bill will protect freedom of expression online.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-09-14.49060.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g49060.r0
Improve User Safety (except by encrypting stuff)
The Online Safety Bill will give companies clear legal responsibilities to understand the risk of harm to users and put in place systems and processes to improve user safety.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-09-14.49214.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g49214.r0
Define What Companies Must Address
The fact is that the Online Safety Bill does not delegate that decision to online platforms. What it does is define the harmful content that companies must address.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-09-16b.1108.2&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g1108.6
Require Platforms to be consistent with Ofcom *thinks* they do
For example, Twitter’s house rules under the online safety Bill will have to be consistent with Ofcom codes of practice.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2021-22/Higher_Education_%28Freedom_of_Speech%29_Bill/05-0_2021-09-15a.143.3?s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g154.0
Tackle fraud in UGC
[T]he draft online safety Bill, which is currently in prelegislative scrutiny, will address fraudulent user-generated content.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-09-16b.1102.3&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g1102.5
Tackle fraud in non-UGC
[O]ne of the key objectives of the Online Safety Bill is to tackle online fraud, what plans he has for the Bill to tackle online fraud other than user-generated content.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-19.35478.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g35478.q0
Tackle fraud in Search Results
The Online Safety Bill, published on the 12th May, will require companies in scope of regulation to take action to tackle fraud, where it is facilitated through user-generated content (for example by social media posts) or via search results.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-19.35636.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g35636.r0
Just like Caller-ID does
Ofcom have adopted new rules relating to Call Line Identification (CLI), which means phone numbers used to perpetrate scams will be identified, filtered out and prevented from reaching the recipient. As well as this, the Government has also now extended the Online Safety Bill to include fraudulent user-generated content.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-13.32388.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g32388.r0
Make platforms safe for Children
The draft Online Safety Bill, published in May 2021, will ensure companies design their platforms to be safer for users, and particularly for children.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-20.HL2246.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#gHL2246.r0
Make platforms safe for Footballers
The Online Safety Bill will address the racist abuse of footballers online, including anonymous abuse.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2021-07-13a.1710.3&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g1710.5
Be the Main Way to deal with Online Abuse
[T]he Draft Online Safety Bill, which will be the main way of dealing with online abuse.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-07-22f.1151.0&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g1166.3
Inhibit Online Abuse in Northern Ireland
In May, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport published its draft Online Safety Bill. The Northern Ireland Office, as well as the Northern Ireland Department of Justice, who have lead responsibility in Northern Ireland for tackling sectarian abuse and incitement online, have been engaged in this work.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-15.34043.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g34043.r0
Inhibit Online Abuse in Wales
UK Government officials have been working closely with officials in the Welsh Government, throughout the development of the Online Safety Bill, and will continue to engage throughout the legislative process.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-15.34044.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g34044.r0
Tackle Illegal Abuse
Under the draft Online Safety Bill, services in scope will need to minimise and remove illegal content, including illegal online abuse.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-19.35639.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g35639.r0
Tackle Legal Abuse
[T]he online safety Bill, which will put in place measures to tackle illegal and legal but harmful abuse, including racist abuse.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-07-14c.373.0&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g373.2
Tackle Potential Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether racism that falls short of the standard of a racial hatred offence will be covered by the Online Safety Bill as a priority harm.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-14.33294.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g33294.q0
Address that somehow using the Internet apparently makes some crimes, legal
The Online Safety Bill will ensure that racially discriminatory content that is illegal offline, is illegal online.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-14.33224.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g33224.r0
Give Ofcom some fangs
The Online Safety Bill provides a suite of enforcement powers for the regulator, Ofcom.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-13.HL1983.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#gHL1983.r0
Coerce Labour MPs into Committee
It is almost like they are creating another argument for the Online Safety Bill. They want to insult us via virtual participation, and then turn their screen off and hide away because they cannot deal with the arguments. What we are hearing is generally insulting and, quite frankly, wrong. We are truly representing the views of the people—the views of our constituents.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2021-07-20b.827.1&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g894.1
Fix Anti-Vaxxers
[T]he draft Online Safety Bill, which will bring in a legal duty of care and give companies clear legal responsibilities to improve user safety. The new laws will have robust and proportionate measures to deal with disinformation that could cause significant physical or psychological harm to an individual, such as anti-vaccination content and falsehoods about COVID-19.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-14.33216.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g33216.r0
Fix Nitrous Users
The online resource, Talk to FRANK, provides information to the public about nitrous oxide and outlines the risks and dangers of inhaling the gas. We are aware of the role that online sale of nitrous oxide can play in causing harm to young people. We have published the draft Online Safety Bill, which gives effect to the regulatory framework outlined in the Full Government Response to the Online Harms White Paper, published in December 2020. We want the internet to be a safe space for all users and are clear that what is unacceptable offline should be unacceptable online.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-07-07.29151.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g29151.r0
Fix Eating Disorders
We are also working with the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the Online Safety Bill to fully consider pro-eating disorder content online.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2021-06-30.24901.h&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g24901.r0
Fix Climate Change
I wonder if the Minister could confirm whether he has had any conversations with counterparts at DCMS regarding their efforts, through the Online Safety Bill and other initiatives, to target disinformation on climate change?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2021-06-28b.647.1&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g651.1
Fix Foreign Political Influence via Advertising
The Government’s draft Online Safety Bill will require social media and other technology companies to have policies in place to remove illegal content. We need to consider whether an illegal ad, placed on social media by a foreign agent, targeting UK voters, would require the social media company to remove it as a form of illegal content, as it will be required to do under the Bill.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2021-07-08c.309.0&s=%22online+safety+bill%22#g309.3
Fix Illegal Immigration
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