{"id":14339,"date":"2024-05-05T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/ofcom-accused-of-excluding-bereaved-parents-from-online-safety-consultation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T06:38:14","slug":"ofcom-accused-of-excluding-bereaved-parents-from-online-safety-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/ofcom-accused-of-excluding-bereaved-parents-from-online-safety-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom accused of \u2018excluding\u2019 bereaved parents from online safety consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK regulator has been criticised by grieving families and internet abuse survivors for failing to engage with them<\/p>\n<p>Bereaved parents and abuse survivors who have endured years of \u201cpreventable, life-changing harm\u201d linked to social media say they have been denied a voice in official discussions about holding tech firms to account.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano Janin, whose \u00addaughter Mia, 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/jan\/26\/im-victim-of-failing-system-mia-janins-father-says-after-inquest-into-girls-death\">killed herself after online bullying<\/a>, and the parents of Oliver Stephens, 13, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/26\/two-teenage-boys-guilty-of-of-oliver-stephens-13\">murdered after a dispute on social media<\/a>, are among those who have accused Ofcom of excluding them from a \u00adconsultation process for tackling online harms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/05\/ofcom-accused-of-excluding-bereaved-parents-from-online-safety-consultation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6c4e421ff838b837fa558e10174d9c4f1c162a39\/0_341_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7acc9a0bd55f60448c15977f900f5c56\" title=\"Ofcom accused of \u2018excluding\u2019 bereaved parents from online safety consultation\" \/>The UK regulator has been criticised by grieving families and internet abuse survivors for failing to engage with them<br \/>\nBereaved parents and abuse survivors who have endured years of \u201cpreventable, life-changing harm\u201d linked to social media say they have been denied a voice in official discussions about holding tech firms to account.<br \/>\nMariano Janin, whose \u00addaughter Mia, 14, killed herself after online bullying, and the parents of Oliver Stephens, 13, who was murdered after a dispute on social media, are among those who have accused Ofcom of excluding them from a \u00adconsultation process for tackling online harms. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK regulator has been criticised by grieving families and internet abuse survivors for failing to engage with them Bereaved parents and abuse survivors who have endured years of \u201cpreventable, life-changing harm\u201d linked to social media say they have been denied a voice in official discussions about holding tech firms to account. Mariano Janin, whose &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/05\/ofcom-accused-of-excluding-bereaved-parents-from-online-safety-consultation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ofcom accused of \u2018excluding\u2019 bereaved parents from online safety consultation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}