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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan spoke about the latest on the Online Safety Bill on Tuesday.
She said that if websites fail to prevent innapropriate material from appearing, they will face huge fines and that some had already changed their behaviour.
With regards to children, the average age that they see pornography is 13 and that seeing innapropriate material had led some childten to take their own lives.
Moderators have said that they are having to check four things at once for eight hours a day, but, nevertheless, there will be zero tolerance of this material.
She spoke about the requirement for age verification that can be aided by AI & technology. If there is any doubt about someone's age, just like supermarkets when they sell age restricted products they will have to ask the individual for more information to prove their age.
2/3 of adults will be targeted by online fraudsters, so websites will be required to be proactive in preventing this.
It's about 15 mins in.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/...mand/74264-197 |
At 13, I was hunting that material, not trying to hide from it, which is pretty normal and healthy.