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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.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
Research paper from OFCOM
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
This page provides a collection of online media literacy resources and events.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
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.
Documents, publications and announcements relating to the government's Online Safety Bill.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
A research paper from OFCOM
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
What you need to do now that the eCommerce Directive no longer applies to the UK.
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