UK's new internet plans could bring state censorship of the internet, campaigners warn

The government's new proposals to try and protect people from harm on the internet could actually create a huge censorship operation, campaigners have warned. Ministers have revealed the long-awaited white paper on online harms, in an attempt to deal with the dangers posed by content being distributed on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. It recommends a wide variety of new legal changes, including imposing a duty of care on the tech firms and holding individual people at the top of those companies responsible for breaking the rules. They will force the companies to remove any offending content – from terrorist content to child abuse imagery – as quickly as they can, and within time limits. We'll tell you what's true.