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<p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to
make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. We intend to establish in
law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent
regulator. The duty of care will ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes
in place to deal with harmful content on their services to keep their users safe.
Compliance with this duty of care will be overseen by an independent regulator, which
will have a range of enforcement powers.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the White Paper,
the government published the Social Media Code of Practice. This voluntary guidance
sets out actions that the Government believes social media platforms should take to
prevent bullying, insulting, intimidating and humiliating behaviours on their sites.</p><p>
</p><p>Government has also asked the Law Commission to conduct a second phase of its
review of the legal framework around abusive and offensive communications online.
This will make specific recommendations for legal reform and is due to report in early
2021. Alongside this, the Law Commission will also consider whether co-ordinated harassment
by groups of people online could be more effectively dealt with by the criminal law.</p><p><strong>
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