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Ofcom admits UK online safety laws failing to protect children

Original: Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits

Ofcom, the UK's online safety regulator, has admitted that new online safety laws have failed to protect children, in a review of the first nine months of the regime. Campaigners described the lack of progress as staggering, and the admission is likely to intensify pressure on both the regulator and tech platforms to move faster on child protection measures.

Why now: The regulator's own admission of failure after months of the new regime is a striking reversal that fuels criticism from child safety campaigners.

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• Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits · The Guardian

  Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regime

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