Tackling Online Abuse

Petitions Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 14 May 2020 Closed: 28 Mar 2022 Parliament page
The Petitions Committee has launched an inquiry into tackling online abuse, to consider issues raised in a number of petitions from the last Parliament and to follow up on the Committee’s previous inquiry into online abuse and the experiences of disabled people. The inquiry will resume in the wake of … Read more
22 Recommendations
7 Conclusions
1 Report
5 Oral sessions
5 Events
Activity timeline 12 events
1 Feb
2022
1 Dec
2021
1 Dec
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 6, Palace of Westminster
23 Nov
2021
23 Nov
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 16, Palace of Westminster
16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster
2 Nov
2021
2 Nov
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
2 Jul
2020
2 Jul
2020
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Virtual meeting
Oral evidence sessions 5 sessions
Chris Philp MP · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Orla MacRae · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Dr Nicholas Hoggard · Law Commission Katy Minshall · Twitter Professor Penney Lewis · The Law Commission Rebecca Stimson · Meta Theo Bertram · TikTok
Tackling Online Abuse
Andy Burrows · NSPCC Dr Bertie Vidgen · The Alan Turing Institute Ellen Judson · Demos Seyi Akiwowo · Glitch Stephen Kinsella OBE · Clean up the Internet William Perrin OBE · Carnegie Trust UK
Tackling Online Abuse
Chara Bakalis · Oxford Brookes University Danny Stone MBE · Antisemitism Policy Trust Dr Joe Mulhall · HOPE not hate Matthew Harrison · The Royal Mencap Society Nancy Kelley · Stonewall Ruth Smeeth · Index on Censorship
Amy Price Katie Price
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
1 Conclusion Not Addressed
Second Report - Tackling online ab…
Online abuse can have a devastating impact on those who are exposed to it, and...
Online abuse can have a devastating impact on those who are exposed to it, and we are alarmed at evidence suggesting the problem has worsened since the covid-19 pandemic began. While tackling this issue is important in making the online … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the devastating impact of online abuse and describes how the Online Safety Bill will ensure illegal abuse is handled and children are protected, but it does not specifically address the recommendation to assess and track the scale of this behaviour more precisely.
Government Response AI assessment · 29 of 22 classified

Total 22 recs + 7 conclusions