TheLegacy

It is going to be interesting to see how they handle the snag of the term “legal but harmful”. How anyone can conclude a perspective is beyond me. What is one persons harmful is another persons safe... and you know the religious groups are going to want a say in this which I only hope she'll ignore.

LONDON — As the nation reels from the death of monarch Queen Elizabeth II, newly named Tory Prime Minister Liz Truss has stated that her government will proceed with the passage of the controversial Online Safety Bill. Truss, though, said “some tweaks” are required.

The bill was proposed by the conservative UK government to protect internet users from harmful online content, which includes racist, antisemitic, and abusive images and messages from third-party users. Adult entertainment industry members have followed the passage of the Online Safety Bill because it explicitly targets adult websites and penalizes their operators if proper age restriction protocols aren’t in place. Penalties also include jail time for technology companies executives who withhold information from UK digital regulators.

Holding her first PM Questions press conference at 10 Downing Street some days ago, Truss said “What I want to make sure of is that we protect underage teens from harm, but we also want to make sure free speech is allowed.” Financial Times reports that these “tweaks” will include efforts to continue reworking the definition of “legal but harmful,” per the provisions of the proposed Online Safety Bill.

In a column for the UK edition of The New Statesman, Kir Nuthi, a senior policy analyst for the Washington, DC-based Center for Data Innovation, noted that Truss faces significant challenges in ensuring a balance of freedom of speech and robust digital regulations.

“The bill needs significant amendments in order to balance the preservation of free speech, removal of problematic content, and protection of UK users,” wrote Nuthi, a UK citizen, adding that the “legal but harmful language within the bill by moving certain types of content from the lawful category to the unlawful one. This way, they’d be able to ensure that free speech isn’t overly moderated by online services.”

https://www.ynot.com/uk-prime-minist...-needs-tweaks/

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