Internet: Offensive Weapons

(asked on 17th March 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcome was of her Department's consultation on the accountability of social media executives for not removing adverts for weapons and knives.


Answered by
Diana Johnson Portrait
Diana Johnson
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 20th March 2025

The Government will be publishing the response to the consultation on the personal liability measure this spring.

This measure, which implements a manifesto commitment, will introduce personal liability on senior executives of online companies that do not take down illegal content relating to knives and offensive weapons when requested to do so by the police.

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