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Articles on Online Safety Bill
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Mobile phones have extended the reach and control of abusive partners.
The long-awaited legislation still has serious gaps.
The online safety bill contains measures that appear to compel messaging services to break encryption.
An expert explains what to do if you find images of yourself online.
After years of campaigning, the nonconsensual sharing of images is being made a sexual offence.
Addressing online misogyny is a community-wide responsibility.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
Rather than preserving freedom of expression, the interpretation of ‘harm’ in the online safety bill could have the opposite effect.
We recently heard that ‘new’ criminal offences would be added to the UK’s online safety bill to help tackle the growing problem of online abuse.
The online safety bill will make it mandatory for pornography websites to verify the age of users.
New online safety laws will allow ‘harmful’ sexual content to be taken down within 24 hours
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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Professor of Law, Technology and Innovation, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Lecturer in Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Professor of Creative Economies, Birmingham City University
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Lecturer of Cybersecurity, University of Sheffield
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Senior lecturer, College of Business Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Gender Abuse and Policy, London South Bank University