Plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content scrapped from government’s Online Safety Bill

A plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content has been scrapped from the Government’s Online Safety Bill – to the dismay of campaigners who’ve described it as a hugely backward step.

Critics of the section had argued that it was a risk to free speech – while the Culture secretary insisted that people would have more control over what they viewed online – while children would still be protected.