UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
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The UK plans to amend the Online Safety Act to make self-harm content a priority offence, requiring platforms to proactively prevent such material rather than merely remove it after publication; the move is supported by the Samaritans, criticized by privacy advocates over censorship and encryption concerns (e.g., Signal), will be enforced by Ofcom, and would take effect three weeks after parliamentary approval.
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