by Technology companies do not get much power through measures to offer children more protection online, as the Head of Ofcom said when defending the upcoming reforms.
The regulatory authority announced last month that websites with potentially harmful content such as porn sites within the framework of reforms that apply to committed websites for adults as well as for social media, search or gaming services within the framework of the online security law must carry out age tests for users.
Ian Russell, who has campaigned for improved online security since his 14-year-old daughter Molly after looking at social media on social media, said that OFCOM must “act in the best possible way within the borders of the law” and pass on weaknesses in legislation.
Dame Melanie Dawes, Managing Director of Ofcom, told BBCS Sunday with Laura Kuensberg: “We have defined about five or six things that we believe that they can work, e.g.
“We said (to technology companies) that you decide what works for your platform, but we will check whether it is effective and those who do not insert these checks with enforcement measures.”
Dame Melanie, who reacts to the proposal that OFCOM company gives a lot of power about the implementation of measures, said Dame Melanie: “No, we don’t give you so much. I say that if you carry out age reviews, you have to find out what will work on your service.
“But let me be really clear what we ask for protecting children and what comes into force at the end of this month, you have to tame these algorithms so that not only porn and suicide and self -harm are not shown, but also violent content, dangerous challenges, women’s hostility, everything that does not have to be actively fed with children in order to feed children in their feeds.” “
The managing director said that these types of content are not completely blocked, and said: “What Parliament decided that there should be an absolute block for suicide and self-harm and pornography for U18 years, and then what we have done is what we have done in these other types of content that we are really harmful to the children.”
She added: “I am not a politician and I think it is incredibly important that OFCOM respects the role we have to implement the laws we have received.
“If the parliament decides to expand it in the direction of miss and disinformation or major problems with regard to addiction to the children, OFCOM is of course ready to implement this.”
