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Originally Posted by Maggy
Ok to get back to the original question.How have the police got tough on internet trolls?
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The police have toughened up their response in serious cases, such as the incidents where three black footballers were subject to racist remarks last year.
However, rather than burden the already overstretched police force with the task of policing the internet, it was decided to ask site owners to voluntarily police inappropriate content themselves.
This idea of a voluntary code of conduct failed miserably as most appear to be only interested in making money and nothing else.
The Online Safety Bill is a more robust effort to force self regulation onto site owners, administrators, moderators etc by the introduction of new legislation that will, amongst other things, require the people involved to have a statutory duty of care, particularly for the more vulnerable members of society, such as children, the disabled and other protected groups.
Sanctions will include personal fines and imprisonment for failing to do so, so it's imperitive that those that this affects familiarise themselves with the forthcoming legislation.
Ofcom have advised me that the bill is expected to become law in about six months, so we're talking round about Christmas time.
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It's not just our Government that's taking action against trolls.
The first article in this week's Digital Planet looks at the tougher stance being taken by Japan on those who post insults or indulge in cyber bullying. Those who indulge in this behaviour can now be imprisoned after legislation was updated; they say that their constitution prevents free speech from being impacted. This follows the death of a reality star after this was done to her to the extent that she took her own life:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct31