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Select committee: Communications and Digital Committee

Growing up with the internet - Government response

Published 12 October 2017

Communications and Digital Committee Children and the internet inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗

At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to 2nd Report - Growing up with the internet.

This is the government's response, published 12 October 2017.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says its Internet Safety Strategy, published as a green paper with an eight week consultation, responds to the majority of the Committee's recommendations, and the annex sets out its position on the rest.

  • On minimum standards for social media companies, it is consulting on a code of practice under the Digital Economy Act, and invites views on a levy on social media companies and an annual internet safety transparency report.
  • On a summit to set minimum standards, it thanks the Committee and says "We will consider this as one of the next steps", following the Strategy consultation.
  • On filters being 'on' by default, it states its belief that the current industry-led self-regulatory approach "works well" and says a mandatory approach "risks" replacing user-friendly tools with a more inflexible 'top down' regulatory system.
  • On a Children's Digital Champion in the Cabinet Office, it points to the Minister for Digital's responsibility for all digital matters and to a remodelled UKCCIS. The response does not state that a Champion will be established.

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