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Platforms face new UK curbs on violent porn in push to expand online safety law’s scope

By Patricia Figueiredo ( November 4, 2025, 17:24 GMT | Insight) -- Online platforms hosting pornographic or adult content will face tighter UK rules under plans to criminalize depictions of strangulation and suffocation in the latest expansion of the scope of the Online Safety Act. The measures, introduced as amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, would make such material a priority offense, requiring companies to detect and remove it proactively. It’s the third new priority offense announced since Liz Kendall became technology minister in September.Online platforms hosting pornographic or adult content will face stricter rules under UK government plans to criminalize depictions of strangulation and suffocation, in another move to expand companies’ proactive obligations under the Online Safety Act....

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