Internet: Suicide

(asked on 31st March 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 instructions on how to take your own life will be considered illegal content that assists suicide in the new online safety regime.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 19th April 2022

Encouraging or assisting suicide is illegal. Any website publishing illegal suicide content is already breaking the law.

Under the Online Safety Bill, all platforms in scope will need to tackle and remove illegal material online.

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