UK sets out law to prosecute bosses in big tech crackdown


The UK government is giving Ofcom the responsibility to scrutinise and challenge algorithms and systems inside big technology companies that can propagate harm online - rather than asking officials to chase and litigate on individual bad pieces of content. — Reuters

The UK is introducing long-awaited and sweeping legal proposals to force Internet companies to remove illegal content from their platforms, giving regulator Ofcom power to impose massive fines and prosecute executives personally for failures to comply.

Although its central aims and numerous revisions have been in circulation since 2019, the Online Safety Bill will be presented for lawmakers to see in full this Thursday, after a first formal draft was published in May.

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