Under the proposed laws, any company that allows users to share or discover user-generated content or interact with each other online will face fines if they fail to adhere to a mandatory duty of care to protect users.
Other measures in the Online Harms White Paper include forcing online companies to end the sharing of content about child abuse or terrorism, and demanding they publish annual reports revealing the amount of harmful content on their platforms, and how they have responded to this.
The government is also set to appoint a regulator to enforce the tougher measures, including issuing fines, blocking access to sites and potentially imposing liability on individual company employees, which will at first be funded by the industry.
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