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UK Online Safety Bill’s child protections to be strengthened, digital minister says

By Sam Clark ( October 7, 2022, 11:49 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s Online Safety Bill will be beefed up to include stronger protections for children online, digital minister Michelle Donelan has told the father of a teenage girl whose suicide was partly attributed to content she saw online. Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, whose death and the subsequent inquest into it has propelled social media content policies into the public eye, told BBC radio that new measures may mean further delays.The UK’s Online Safety Bill may face even more delays as the government seeks to beef up its child protection measures....

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