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<p>Across Government, we regularly engage with civil society representatives to understand
the online threat communities face and to help inform our efforts to tackle online
harms. We are clear that what is unacceptable offline should be unacceptable online.</p><p>Within
the Home Office, we work closely with our international partners and engage with industry
colleagues to discuss how platforms can best safeguard their users from terrorism,
while also encouraging tech companies work together as one coordinated body through
the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), to reduce the availability
of terrorist content online. We are also working with civil society partners and social
media platforms to encourage victim reporting of online hate crime, including hateful
online abuse related to Covid-19.</p><p>Home Office officials also meet a range of
stakeholders regularly to discuss the online child sexual exploitation and abuse threat
and what can and is being done to tackle it. This includes technology companies, non-governmental
organisations and other government partners. We have recently been engaging with relevant
organisations on the Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation
and Abuse and the government’s online harms agenda.</p><p>The Government does not
routinely comment on Ministerial meetings which are held as part of the process of
policy development and delivery.</p>
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