{"id":8103,"date":"2022-11-29T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/uk-minister-defends-u-turn-over-removing-harmful-online-content\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:37:38","slug":"uk-minister-defends-u-turn-over-removing-harmful-online-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/uk-minister-defends-u-turn-over-removing-harmful-online-content\/","title":{"rendered":"UK minister defends U-turn over removing harmful online content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Donelan rejects claim by father of Molly Russell that online safety bill has been watered down<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/nov\/29\/online-safety-bill-rishi-sunak-uk-politics-live-news-latest\">UK politics live \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, has defended removing a provision in the online safety bill to regulate \u201clegal but harmful\u201d online material, after the father of teenager Molly Russell said it was a \u201cwatering down\u201d of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have scrapped the provision after MPs raised free speech concerns. It would have included offensive content that does not constitute a criminal offence, but instead Donelan said platforms would be required to enforce their terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/29\/minister-defends-u-turn-over-removing-harmful-online-content-online-safety-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf8e6e156c596cad929a7834e3f1180e309e3d48\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1e081d376ce2be5ce88584037686d1f9\" title=\"UK minister defends U-turn over removing harmful online content\" \/>Michelle Donelan rejects claim by father of Molly Russell that online safety bill has been watered down<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest news updates<br \/>\nThe UK culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, has defended removing a provision in the online safety bill to regulate \u201clegal but harmful\u201d online material, after the father of teenager Molly Russell said it was a \u201cwatering down\u201d of the bill.<br \/>\nMinisters have scrapped the provision after MPs raised free speech concerns. It would have included offensive content that does not constitute a criminal offence, but instead Donelan said platforms would be required to enforce their terms and conditions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Donelan rejects claim by father of Molly Russell that online safety bill has been watered down UK politics live \u2013 latest news updates The UK culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, has defended removing a provision in the online safety bill to regulate \u201clegal but harmful\u201d online material, after the father of teenager Molly Russell said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/uk-minister-defends-u-turn-over-removing-harmful-online-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK minister defends U-turn over removing harmful online content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8104,"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\/8103"}],"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=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}