UK confirms removal of Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ clause

UK confirms removal of Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ clause

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/uk-online-safety-bill-legal-but-harmful-edit/

The UK government has completed a major revision to controversial but populist online safety legislation that’s been in the works for years — and was finally introduced to parliament earlier this year — but has been paused since this summer following turmoil in the governing Conservative Party.

In September, new secretary of state for digital, Michelle Donelan, said the reshuffled government, under newly elected prime minister Liz Truss (who has since been replaced by another new PM, Rishi Sunak) would make certain edits to the bill before bringing it back to parliament.