UK expands Online Safety Bill to criminalize encouraging self harm

UK expands Online Safety Bill to criminalize encouraging self harm

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/online-safety-bill-self-harm/

The UK government has said it will further expand the scope of online safety legislation by criminalizing the encouragement of self-harm — in a bid to tackle what it describes as “tragic and avoidable deaths caused by people seeing self-harm content online”.

The latest amendment to the controversial but populist Online Safety Bill will mean in-scope platforms will be required to remove content that deliberately encourages somebody to physically injure themselves — or else risk penalties under the legislation.