Peter Kyle frustrated at bill inherited from Tories and says parliament should legislate faster to protect public
Online safety legislation is “unsatisfactory” and “uneven”, the science secretary has said as he expressed hopes for parliament to learn to legislate faster on the issue.
The act is the UK’s first major legislation to regulate social media, search engine, messaging, gaming, dating, pornography and filesharing platforms. Sharing his frustrations with the legislation, Kyle told the BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: “The frustration I have is that the bill was conceived with a whole set of principles, including taking down illegal but also tackling the area where the volume of interaction could have a negative impact – legal but harmful.
Kyle added: “I want to focus on getting all the powers I can have implemented, that will happen in the course of this year. I’m very open-minded and I have said publicly we will have to legislate into the future again. We can’t just wait every decade or so and do a big bang of online harm legislation and also other bits of technological legislation.
Kyle appeared to defend the Meta chief executive, pointing to other comments in which Zuckerberg had “mentioned the need to take down illegal activity” and “keep children safe online”.
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