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The challenges of regulating online speech

Author headshot By Mihaela Popa-Wyatt Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Digital Futures Posted: July 27, 2023

Hate speech or harmful speech is any expression (speech, text, images) that demeans, threatens, or harms members of groups with protected characteristics. It includes slurs, name-calling, discriminatory and exclusionary speech, incitement to hatred and violence, harassment. Online communities are a particularly fast way to spread hate. In this article, Dr Mihaela Popa-Wyatt explores the main questions […]

Tagged With: digital, Digital Futures, online safety, online safety bill, social media, technology

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Online safety: Child abuse and exploitation in eXtended Reality

Picture of Steve Pettifer By Emma Barrett and Steve Pettifer Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Digital Futures Posted: June 13, 2022

In 2020 a team led by Professor Emma Barrett and Professor Steve Pettifer was commissioned by GCHQ to examine how child exploitation and abuse may evolve in light of the latest emerging technology trend: the widespread adoption of immersive ‘eXtended Reality’ (XR) technologies, including Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Their report synthesises research on online […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, CMI, crime, cyber crime, digital, Digital Futures, Metaverse, National Intelligence, online safety bill, policing, SoSS, technology, VR, wellbeing, XR

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