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Addition to UK Online Safety Bill to criminalize 'trolls' encouraging self-harm

( May 18, 2023, 11:39 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: New additions to the UK's Online Safety Bill will make it a crime to encourage someone to cause serious self-harm, with penalties of up to five years in prison, the Ministry of Justice has said. "Trolls" encouraging self-harm could be convicted even if the recipient of the trolling does not actually conduct self-harm and whether or not the perpetrator knows the target. It will add to existing laws against encouraging someone to take their own life, but won't criminalize those who share images of their own self-harm as part of their recovery. The addition to the bill — currently being debated at "committee stage" in the House of Lords, Parliament's upper chamber — follows a recommendation from the Law Commission.Statement follows:...

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