Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 16 April 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's white paper on online harms, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed policies on the volume of people using smaller platforms to conduct illegal or harmful activity.
The duty of care will apply to platforms that provide the services or tools that allow, enable or facilitate users to share or discover user-generated content, or interact with each other online - regardless of their size. Focussing on the services provided by companies, rather than their business model, sector or size, limits the risk that online harms simply move and proliferate outside of the ambit of the new regulatory framework.
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