Key Facts

• Government is introducing the Online Safety Bill.
• Platforms must remove terrorist material and child sexual abuse/exploitation content quickly.
• Children are protected from harmful or inappropriate online content such as grooming, bullying, pornography, and self-harm promotion.
• Companies must prevent children from accessing pornographic content using age-verificaton technology when appropriate.
• The Bill includes priority offences like revenge pornography, fraud, illegal drug/weapons sales, suicide promotion, people smuggling, and the illegal sex trade.
• Providers will report child sexual exploitation imagery to the National Crime Agency.
• Platforms must tackle scam adverts by implementing systems to prevent fraudulent ads.
• Ofcom has enforcement powers including fines, requiring improvements, and pursuing business disruption measures.
• The Bill introduces criminal offences for senior managers who fail to cooperate with Ofcom.
• UK committed to Internet Safety Principles during G7 presidency.