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  • Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK

    Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material. Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking…

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  • A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’

    Intimate image abuse is a crisis in the UK – with a fortyfold increase in calls to this service since it opened in 2015. Thankfully, there are effective ways to help those being victimised By midday, Jessica has dealt with five calls from highly distressed young women in their 20s, all close to tears or…

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  • Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act

    Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “failing a generation of young women” with his plans to scrap the Online Safety Act, Angela Rayner has said, arguing the move would cause an increase in the prevalence of “revenge porn”. The…

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  • FBI and NSPCC alarmed at ‘shocking’ rise in online sextortion of children

    Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined Tech companies including Snapchat and Facebook reported more than 9,600 cases of adults grooming children online in the UK in just six months last year – the equivalent of about 400 a week. Law enforcement agencies,…

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  • Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act

    Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims The UK’s Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred…

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