Although it’s now law, online platforms will not need to immediately comply with all of their duties under the bill. UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, which is in charge of enforcing the rules, plans to publish its codes of practice in three phases. The first covers how platforms have to respond to illegal content like terrorism and child sexual abuse material and a draft of this is due to be published within 100 days of the regulator’s powers commencing.
A bill years in the making
Phases two…