{"id":950255,"date":"2021-11-01T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950255"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:15:27","slug":"british-lawmakers-want-to-jail-internet-trolls-for-causing-emotional-psychological-or-physical-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-lawmakers-want-to-jail-internet-trolls-for-causing-emotional-psychological-or-physical-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"British Lawmakers Want To Jail Internet Trolls For Causing \u2018Emotional, Psychological, Or Physical Harm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-lawmakers-want-to-jail-internet-trolls-for-causing-emotional-psychological-or-physical-harm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950255&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>British legislators are considering making it illegal to post certain content online that causes \u201cemotional, psychological, or physical harm to the likely audience.\u201d The provision, which would be part of the so-called Online Safety Bill, would include jail time for those who defy such requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/5cdadf7c-3a85-11ec-9bef-aa3112940013\">The Times<\/a>. \u201cMinisters will overhaul communication laws by creating new offenses in the forthcoming Online Safety Bill, the flagship legislation to combat abuse and hatred on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department for Culture, Media &amp; Sport has accepted recommendations from the Law Commission for crimes to be based on \u2018likely psychological harm,\u2019\u201d the report continued. \u201cThe proposed law change will shift the focus on to the \u2018harmful effect\u2019 of a message rather than if it contains \u2018indecent\u2019 or \u2018grossly offensive\u2019 content, which is the present basis for assessing its criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to The Times, the bill would ban \u201cthreatening communications\u201d and \u201cknowingly false communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making our laws fit for the digital age,\u201d said a government spokesperson. \u201cOur comprehensive Online Safety Bill will make tech companies responsible for people\u2019s safety and we are carefully considering the Law Commission\u2019s recommendations on strengthening criminal offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Online Safety Bill would also impose additional standards on Big Tech platforms, including that they remove content that could be harmful to users, even if the content itself is legal. In response, Twitter\u2019s Katy Minshall said that the draft bill failed to answer key questions such as how to define legal but harmful material, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-59010723\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Culture Secretary said that this move would make the United Kingdom \u201cthe safest place in the world to be online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-10122037\/NADINE-DORRIES-said-wanted-trapped-burning-car-watch-flesh-melt.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a>, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries, referenced the terrorism-motivated stabbing of Sir David Amess in October, as well as the \u201conline abuse\u201d she has received, as part of the motivation behind this legislative move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid was just doing his job and his death was an attack on democracy. While our efforts to introduce legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online might not have changed what happened last week, the heinous events have highlighted two awful facts. The online arena remains the home of disgusting, often anonymous abuse, and a place where people are radicalised,\u201d Dorries wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnline hate has poisoned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British legislators are considering making it illegal to post certain content online that causes \u201cemotional, psychological, or physical harm to the likely audience.\u201d The provision, which would be part of the so-called Online Safety Bill, would include jail time for those who defy such requirements.\u201cTrolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate,\u201d reported The Times. \u201cMinisters will overhaul communication laws by creating new offenses in the forthcoming Online Safety Bill, the flagship legislation to combat abuse and hatred on the internet.\u201d\u201cThe Department for Culture, Media &#038; Sport has accepted recommendations from the Law Commission for crimes to be based on \u2018likely psychological harm,\u2019\u201d the report continued. \u201cThe proposed law change will shift the focus on to the \u2018harmful effect\u2019 of a message rather than if it contains \u2018indecent\u2019 or \u2018grossly offensive\u2019 content, which is the present basis for assessing its criminality.\u201dAccording to The Times, the bill would ban \u201cthreatening communications\u201d and \u201cknowingly false communications.\u201d\u201cWe are making our laws fit for the digital age,\u201d said a government spokesperson. \u201cOur comprehensive Online Safety Bill will make tech companies responsible for people\u2019s safety and we are carefully considering the Law Commission\u2019s recommendations on strengthening criminal offenses.\u201dThe Online Safety Bill would also impose additional standards on Big Tech platforms, including that they remove content that could be harmful to users, even if the content itself is legal. In response, Twitter\u2019s Katy Minshall said that the draft bill failed to answer key questions such as how to define legal but harmful material, according to the BBC.The UK Culture Secretary said that this move would make the United Kingdom \u201cthe safest place in the world to be online.\u201dWriting for The Daily Mail, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries, referenced the terrorism-motivated stabbing of Sir David Amess in October, as well as the \u201conline abuse\u201d she has received, as part of the motivation behind this legislative move.\u201cDavid was just doing his job and his death was an attack on democracy. While our efforts to introduce legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online might not have changed what happened last week, the heinous events have highlighted two awful facts. The online arena remains the home of disgusting, often anonymous abuse, and a place where people are radicalised,\u201d Dorries wrote.\u00a0\u201cOnline hate has poisoned public life. It\u2019s often unbearable. And it has to end,\u201d she added. \u201cWe have the legislation to do it. Our Online Safety Bill is one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation in the internet age. No other country has published a Bill that will go so far to make big tech accountable for the content on their platforms, and for the way they promote it.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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