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| Online safety updates: Families tell BBC new Ofcom social media rules not tough enough - BBC News | Online safety updates: Families tell BBC new Ofcom social media rules not tough enough - BBC News |
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| This morning, we heard from the families of 12 children whose deaths were linked to social media and harmful content online. Here's what they said: | |
| Many spoke of the involvement of social media in their children's death - Ellen Roome says she still does not know why her 14-year-old son Jools died, after social media companies refused her access to his account without a court order | |
| Ruth Moss, whose 13-year-old daughter took her own life, described seeing graphic harmful content on her social media. Ian Russell, whose daughter also took her own life, said trying to get tougher social media laws has been a frustrating process | |
| Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes said the regulator would be publishing details on which social media companies are working with the new legislation and which are not, to give families the information to make a choice on what their children are allowed to access | |
| Minimum age requirements to use social media are "not enforced", Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan said, adding that the new legislation will put the onus on social media companies to do more robust age checks | |
| Stuart Stephens, the father of 13-year-old Olly Stephens who was killed after a dispute on social media, said children are being desensitised after being exposed to graphic content online. Donelan agreed that harmful content needed to be "stripped out" of social media platforms | |
| She also said that companies should be fined "up to 18% of their global turnover" if they breach online safety rules, giving a "commercial incentive" to abide by them | |
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