UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content
, the government promised to tackle anonymous abuse by social media platform users by giving users the option to verify their identity, and tools to have more control over the legal content that they see and who they interact with – such as excluding interactions with unverified users.
The legislation has been on a long journey. First proposed in April last year, a driving factor behind it was politicians' outrage at the ease at which children could access harmful and pornographic content. Legislators toyed with the idea of enforcing age-verification on viewing such content, before privacy concerns saw that concept ditched.
The idea of preventing children from seeing nefarious content has not gone altogether though, especially since the tragic death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who died in 2017 following"an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content", according to an inquest.
Rather than strict ID-base age-verification, platform providers would be forced to publish data revealing the risk of children viewing such content on their systems. Donelan told Parliament:"Platforms will still have to shield children and young people from both illegal content and a whole range of other harmful content, including pornography, violent content and so on. However, they will also face new duties on age limits. No longer will social media companies be able to claim to ban users under 13 while quietly turning a blind eye to the estimated 1.6 million children who use their sites under age.
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