The summer holidays are known in the news business as the silly season. With parliament in recess and MPs set free with their ...

However, it does make it less surprising that the Online Safety Act does not include any requirements for businesses to ...

Under new UK rules, platforms must work to prevent children accessing harmful content like material that encourages suicide, ...

The U.K.'s Online Safety Act took effect last Friday, putting age gates on content deemed unsuitable for minors, including pornography and content about suicide and self harm. While some sites have ...

The issue for the UK — and other countries seeking, belatedly, to shield minors from online harms — is making age verification work. The most foolproof methods tend to involve uploading documents or ...

The UK government yesterday defended a new online safety law following harsh criticism from social network X, saying it was ...

Censorship is not how we do things in Western civilization”. So said Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) of the United ...

Under the law, which took effect on July 25, online platforms must take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content ...

The move came after Elon Musk’s social media platform X criticised the new law which it described as ‘heavy-handed’.

To do so, Spotify partnered with the digital identity company, Yoti. Users are now required to do one of two verification ...

Social media platform X has warned that Britain’s Online Safety Act could suppress free speech due to heavy-handed enforcement. While supporting child protection, X urged significant reforms to ensure ...