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If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
Advice on how to stay secure online from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
Guidance for defence personnel on the use of social media
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
How to find export opportunities and overseas customers for your business on great.gov.uk: get help selling online overseas, get help from a trade specialist.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
Many libraries offer free internet access - book internet access at your local council library
This is the official one-stop shop for businesses on child online safety.
This page brings together research commissioned by DCMS related to onlines harms. It informs government policy to prevent harm related to online activities. It also contains research by the UK Council for Internet Safety.
This page brings together advice from social media platforms about online security.
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