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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Martyn Landi

New, strengthened Online Safety Act needed to protect children, charity says

The Online Safety Act is due to start coming into effect next year (PA) - (PA Wire)

Ministers should commit to a new version of the Online Safety Bill which strengthens regulation in order to better protect children, a charity has said.

The Molly Rose Foundation has warned that the current implementation of the Bill by new online safety regulator Ofcom has been risk averse and unambitious, while also exposing structural weaknesses in the Act which it says need to be fixed.

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