The Joint pre-legislative scrutiny Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill has published the written evidence submitted by MRF.
The MRF response is summarised below:
- The Bill should include an overarching safety Duty of Care sitting above the different safety duties proposed
- The scope of legislation should be amended to ensure any online service able to be accessed by a young person under the age of 25 is covered by regulation
- The definitions of illegal content should be broadened to include content that is ‘legal but harmful’ so such content is covered by regulation
- A statutory user advocacy body should be introduced, funded by an industry levy, to make this legislation widely accessible
- The Bill should immediately introduce personal liability for Senior Managers whose platforms consistently and significantly put young people at risk
- Online companies should be compelled to contribute to an audited pool of anonymised data that can be used for bona fide research into how online technologies effect our offline world
- The Bill should aim to mirror the regulations we live by in the free, offline world
To read the full MRF written evidence Click Here:
