{"id":4475,"date":"2022-01-24T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/online-safety-bill-a-missed-opportunity-to-prevent-child-abuse-mps-warn\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:36:01","slug":"online-safety-bill-a-missed-opportunity-to-prevent-child-abuse-mps-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/online-safety-bill-a-missed-opportunity-to-prevent-child-abuse-mps-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Online safety bill \u2018a missed opportunity\u2019 to prevent child abuse, MPs warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Committee report says draft bill is neither clear nor robust enough to tackle some harmful content<\/p>\n<p>The sharing of some of the most insidious images of child abuse will not be prevented by a new government bill that aims to the make the internet a safer place, MPs have said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/15\/uk-parliament-pushes-back-on-the-online-safety-bill\">draft online safety bill<\/a> is not clear or robust enough to tackle some forms of illegal and harmful content, according to a report by the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) committee. The landmark bill places a duty of care on tech firms to protect users from harmful content or face substantial fines imposed by the communications regulator Ofcom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/24\/online-safety-bill-missed-opportunity-to-detect-child-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/92fb6760609b09718fc5ec3f08fc6290725c59fc\/0_116_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fe07026da7d38e2339ac53dcc4727245\" title=\"Online safety bill \u2018a missed opportunity\u2019 to prevent child abuse, MPs warn\" \/>Committee report says draft bill is neither clear nor robust enough to tackle some harmful content<br \/>\nThe sharing of some of the most insidious images of child abuse will not be prevented by a new government bill that aims to the make the internet a safer place, MPs have said.<br \/>\nThe draft online safety bill is not clear or robust enough to tackle some forms of illegal and harmful content, according to a report by the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) committee. The landmark bill places a duty of care on tech firms to protect users from harmful content or face substantial fines imposed by the communications regulator Ofcom. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committee report says draft bill is neither clear nor robust enough to tackle some harmful content The sharing of some of the most insidious images of child abuse will not be prevented by a new government bill that aims to the make the internet a safer place, MPs have said. The draft online safety bill &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/online-safety-bill-a-missed-opportunity-to-prevent-child-abuse-mps-warn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online safety bill \u2018a missed opportunity\u2019 to prevent child abuse, MPs warn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4476,"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\/4475"}],"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=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}