Social Media: Epilepsy
(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her policy to ensure that protections for people with epilepsy from malicious posts designed to cause seizures will be included in the Online Safety Bill.
This question was answered on 13th October 2022
The Government is committed to introducing a new offence of epilepsy trolling in the Online Safety Bill to address this appalling online abuse.