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online safety and digital citizenship specialist

 Tagged with self harm


20 November 2023

Hundreds of families are suing some of the world's biggest technology companies - who, they say, knowingly expose children to harmful products.

"I literally was trapped by addiction at age 12. And I did not get my life back for all of my teenage years."

Taylor Little's addiction was social media, an addiction that led to suicide attempts and years of depression.

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25 February 2023

Due to the popularity of online gaming platform Roblox with children and young people under the age of 16, our online safety experts have released this Safeguarding Update about a collection of games trending within the platform. The games depict themes of isolation, cutting, and suicide with some including chatrooms where users engage in unmoderated discussions around hopelessness, depression, self-harm, and suicide.

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27 November 2022

The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.

Content that encourages someone to physically harm will be targeted in a new offence, making it illegal.

The government said the changes had been influenced by the case of Molly Russell - the 14-year-old who ended her life in November 2017.

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