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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

Changes to online safety bill tread line between safety and appearing ‘woke’

Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Michelle Donelan
Michelle Donelan is the seventh digital and culture secretary since the online safety bill was first proposed. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The online safety bill is returning to parliament under the aegis of its fourth prime minister and seventh secretary of state since it was first proposed as an online harms white paper under Theresa May.

Each of those has been determined to leave their fingerprints on the legislation, which has swollen to encompass everything from age verification on pornography to criminalisation of posting falsehoods online, and Rishi Sunak and the digital and culture secretary, Michelle Donelan, are no different.

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