Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 41574

Internet: Safety

Tabled: 26 March 2025

Answered: 1 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Kirith Entwistle

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that small but high-risk platforms promoting (a) suicide encouragement and (b) misogyny are subject to the fullest range of duties under the Online Saf

Answer

Feryal Clark

The Online Safety Act requires such services to risk assess for illegal content and have measures in place to tackle it. Ofcom have already launched an enforcement programme which includes asking small but high-risk services for their risk assessments by ...

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