The British Culture Secretary has confirmed plans under new online safety laws that will make tech executives and managers criminally liable for children’s duty of care failures.
Last week, Conservative MPs backed an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would introduce powers to jail tech bosses.
Former cabinet ministers, including ex-home secretary Priti Patel and former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, were among those backing the change to the Online Safety Bill put forward by Tory MP Miriam Cates.
Cates had pointed to TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, and an investigation by the Centre for Countering Hate in December that found that TikTok was pushing suicide, self-harm, and eating disorder content via its “For You” feed….