UK to criminalize encouraging self-harm on social media

The British government will make it a crime encourage other people to harm themselves or cause bodily harm at their expense Internet securityWhat are these weeks?

Content that encourages calling any type in any way physical damage Thus, it will become a new criminal offence.

This is an addition to the law that successive conservative leaders, starting from Boris Johnson they have been unsuccessfully promoting for more than a year – in many ways it responds to the case of the teenager Molly Russell, who caused a strong upheaval in British society.

Russell, 14, committed suicide in November 2017, and last September a coroner’s judge ruled that various social media content played an important role in his decision to take his own life.

A teenager who used apps like instagram D pinterestsuffered “negative consequences as a result of the content” he received via the Internet, coroner Andrew Walker determined.

British minister Michelle Donelan of Digital, Culture and Media stated that the bill would be amended with this crime to “make sure these heinous acts go away.”

“I am determined to bring to justice these heinous trolls who encourage the young and self-mutilating,” Donelan said, according to the report. BBC. (EFE)