{"id":18138,"date":"2024-08-08T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/what-is-the-uks-online-safety-act-and-what-powers-will-it-provide\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:03:43","slug":"what-is-the-uks-online-safety-act-and-what-powers-will-it-provide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/what-is-the-uks-online-safety-act-and-what-powers-will-it-provide\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the UK\u2019s Online Safety Act and what powers will it provide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New laws expected to come into force in 2025 are under spotlight after online planning of far-right riots in England<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-far-right-riots-sadiq-khan\">Online Safety Act not fit for purpose, says Sadiq Khan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/online-safety-act-explainer\/online-safety-act-explainer#:~:text=The%20Act%20requires%20social%20media,are%20shielded%20from%20harmful%20content.\">Online Safety Act<\/a> is back in the spotlight after a week of violence driven in part by far-right groups coordinating online, using a mixture of services including Telegram, TikTok and X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere need to be amendments to the Online Safety Act,\u201d the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-far-right-riots-sadiq-khan\">told the Guardian on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s not fit for purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/what-is-uk-online-safety-act-new-legislation-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New laws expected to come into force in 2025 are under spotlight after online planning of far-right riots in England Online Safety Act not fit for purpose, says Sadiq Khan The Online Safety Act is back in the spotlight after a week of violence driven in part by far-right groups coordinating online, using a mixture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}