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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Milmo

Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children

Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet accepts the leading actress award for her performance in I Am Ruth at the 2023 Baftas in London. Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Bafta/Getty Images for BAFTA

Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the UK parliament debates legislation to rein in social media platforms.

The actor won the television award on Sunday for her portrayal of a mother whose teenage daughter suffers from mental health problems as a result of viewing damaging online content.

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