Policing the ‘new normal’: UK’s Online Safety Bill set to toughen rules on harmful content

11th January 2022Gareth Bryon, former Detective Chief Superintendent 2 Comments

With online communication – and social media in particular – highlighting society’s growing prevalence of abuse and the incitement to hatred and violence, the UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill has been welcomed by many as a step towards tackling big tech’s ‘land of the lawless’; Policing Insight contributor Gareth Bryon looks at the background to the Bill, and some of the measures set to be introduced in 2022.

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