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‘We must stop kids going down lethal rabbit holes like Molly’: The fight for the Online Safety Act
After a five-year Telegraph campaign, new laws to protect young people online are set to be given final approval by the House of Lords
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Molly’s death showed social media firms can’t be trusted to protect children
The Online Safety Act is a vital piece of legislation but Ofcom must move quickly to catch up with tech firms who have a 20-year head start
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Children must be protected online
We will be watching closely to see that the Online Safety Bill achieves its original aims
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Britain is leading the battle to save our broken internet
The technology exists to go further and make the web a safer, better place for all of us. We just need to harness it
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Violent and abusive online pornography should be regulated
This is not about limiting the freedom of adults. It’s about protecting women from harm
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Parents no longer have a clue what their teenagers are talking about
If you are a parent, to keep your children safe either keep them away from online culture entirely – or venture there yourself
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Social media is killing childhood. This must be stopped
Children’ s accounts are being flooded with adult content. Platforms must act to protect young users
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We must be able to threaten tech bosses with jail
There is precedent for this: jail sentences for senior managers in other UK legislation are commonplace for breaches of statutory duties
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Make Big Tech managers personally liable for child safety breaches
Future generations will look back on children’s online harms the same way we look back on children who were forced to work down mines
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