The UK's controversial Online Safety Bill, most widely known for forcing messaging apps to do real-time monitoring for naughty stuff (CSAM, terrorism, etc) that'll break the end-to-end encryption in those apps, has expanded its horizons even further. Now the bill wants to make social media platforms liable for content that "encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury" and introduce "tougher age-checking measures to prevent children from accessing pornography", which in previous drafts was limited to adult websites only. 100% chance that our eSafety Commissioner is furiously taking notes.
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