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Recommendation 10
10
Accepted
The Government must ensure the Online Safety Bill’s safety duties relating to content harmful to...
Recommendation
The Government must ensure the Online Safety Bill’s safety duties relating to content harmful to children apply across a sufficiently comprehensive range of platforms to prevent young people continuing to be able to access or encounter abusive or other harmful content online once the legislation is enacted. We recommend that the Government reviews the child user condition proposed in the draft Bill to ensure it does not impede this aim by excluding too many platforms from the scope of these duties. (Paragraph 51) 48 Tackling Online Abuse
Government Response Summary
The government states the Online Safety Bill is designed to bring high-risk services into scope, and the child user condition ensures protections for children on any in-scope services they are likely to access. They assert this approach is targeted and proportionate, with enforceable requirements for services to assess and review child access.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Government response to recommendations 10 and 11 We thank the Committee for its recommendation to scale up existing specialist teams and to ensure police officers are able to access the right training to identify offences and support victims of hate crime. We are carefully considering the recommendations set out in the Law Commission’s final report, ‘Hate Crime Laws,’ and will shortly publish a new strategy for tackling hate crime, setting out our commitment to stamping out these abhorrent crimes including their online elements, which cause greater harms to victims and associated neighbourhoods. Anonymity and accountability