Recommendation 11

Abusive content hosted on smaller platforms can play a significant role in helping to encourage prejudicial attitudes or even real-world harm. Failure to address this content would risk significantly undermining the potential impact of the proposed online safety legislation in tackling online and offline hate. The duties set out in the Online Safety Bill relating to content that is legal but harmful to adults must apply to a wide enough range of platforms to ensure that abusive content is removed from the online sphere, not merely shifted from larger platforms onto smaller ones subject to less regulatory oversight.