{"id":69660,"date":"2025-08-15T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69660\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:18:23","slug":"what-the-online-safety-act-is-and-how-to-keep-children-safe-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69660\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Online Safety Act is – and how to keep children safe online"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Online Safety Act’s central aim is to make the internet safer for people in the UK, especially children.<\/p>\n

It is a set of laws and duties that online platforms must follow, being implemented and enforced by Ofcom, the media regulator.<\/p>\n

Under its Children’s Codes<\/a>, platforms must prevent young people from encountering harmful content relating to suicide, self-harm, eating disorders and pornography from 25 July.<\/p>\n

This will see some services, notably porn sites, start checking the age of UK users.<\/p>\n

Ofcom’s rules are also designed to protect children from misogynistic, violent, hateful or abusive material, online bullying and dangerous challenges.<\/p>\n

Firms which wish to continue operating in the UK must adopt measures including:<\/p>\n

Failure to comply could result in businesses being fined \u00a318m or 10% of their global revenues – whichever is higher – or their executives being jailed. <\/p>\n

In very serious cases Ofcom says it can apply for a court order to prevent the site or app from being available in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Online Safety Act’s central aim is to make the internet safer for people in the UK, especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-69660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}