Social Media Bosses Could Face Jail If They Breach Rules on Children Under UK’s Online Safety Bill
Tory MPs are planning an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would make tech executives criminally liable for children’s duty of care failures.
Conservative MP Miriam Cates and other MPs including Sir William Cash, Andrea Leadsom, Julian Lewis, Lia Nici, Tim Loughton, Lee Anderson, and former Home Secretary Priti Patel are backing an amendment (pdf) to new laws regulating online spaces that would introduce powers to jail tech bosses.
In an editorial for The Telegraph on Monday, Cates said she believes that “future generations will look back on children’s online harms the same way we look back on children who were forced to work down mines.”…