PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(17 March 2025)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help reduce misogynistic content online.
Asked by:
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Asked by:
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Answer
The Online Safety Act requires in-scope services to proactively tackle the most harmful illegal content, including illegal misogyny.
Where this type of abuse is not illegal, services likely to be accessed by children must provide safety measures to protect them from harmful and age-inappropriate content and activity, including content which is hateful and abusive. Category 1 services will also need to remove legal misogynistic content, where it is prohibited in their terms of service.
The Act requires Ofcom, the regulator, to publish guidance about protecting women and girls online, which it published in draft for consultation on 25 February.
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