As the Online Safety Bill goes through Parliament, polling shows nine in ten (88%) of UK adults overwhelmingly support a watchdog to fight for children at risk of online sexual abuse1.
- More than three in four (79%) of UK adults don’t trust tech firms to deliver their responsibilities under upcoming social media laws and think they’ll likely downplay the harm their sites cause children (77%)1.
- Our current plans for regulation would see children at risk of online sexual abuse given less of a voice than Post Office users or passengers on a bus.
- We’re calling for the Online Safety Bill to create a statutory watchdog to advocate for children as users of their services, funded by a levy on the tech industry to counterbalance their well-funded attempts to influence the regulator.