Analysis
We provide expert commentary, analysis and thought leadership to help our network keep up to date with developments, navigate the various stages of the OSA’s implementation and aid their individual or joint responses to Ofcom’s consultations.
Read our analysis and thought leadership to stay connected to the Online Safety Act and its implementation.
Commentary
Our latest blogs, analysis and comment pieces on topics relating to the OSA and its implementation
- Safety by design: has its time finally come? –
- Ofcom's protection of children consultation: our summary response –
- Manifesto watch: the headlines –
- Categorisation of services in the Online Safety Act –
- OSA Network statement on illegal harms consultation –
- Ofcom's illegal content judgements guidance –
- Ofcom's approach to human rights in the illegal harms consultation –
- Media literacy by design: a response to Ofcom's consultation –
- The OSA regime and the case for "governance by design" –
- The Online Safety Act: the next chapter(s) –
- Welcome to the Online Safety Act Network –
- Bringing small high-harm platforms into the online safety regime: how one word changed the game –
- The Coming into Force of the Online Safety Regime –
- Codes, Guidance and the Status of Quasi-Legislation –
Explainers
Short guides to the OSA and its provisions: what they do and how they will be implemented
- Disinformation and disorder: the limits of the Online Safety Act –
- Dedicated discussion forums and the Online Safety Act – the case of suicide –
- OSA: Child Safety Duties –
- Ofcom’s enforcement powers under the Online Safety Act –
- OSA Codes of Practice: bridging duties and compliance –
- Search Illegal Content Duties –
- User-to-User Illegal Content Duties –
- OSA: priority illegal content - schedules of offences –
- The Online Safety Act 2023 - What OSA Will Do & What Happens Next –
- OSA duties on regulated services: a comparison table –
- The journey to the Online Safety Act: a timeline –
Consultation Responses
Final versions of our submissions to consultations from Ofcom and others on the OSA framework and related topics
- Response to Ofcom's draft transparency guidance consultation –
- Response to UNESCO consultation on AI governance –
- Response to Ofcom's further illegal harms consultation: torture and animal cruelty –
- Response from VAWG sector to Ofcom's children's consultation –
- Response to Ofcom's protection of children consultation –
- Response to Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into non-consensual intimate image abuse –
- Response to JCNSS Call for Evidence on "Defending Democracy" –
- Response to the Government's Pornography Review Call for Evidence –
- Response to Ofcom's consultation on guidance for providers publishing pornographic content –
- Response to Ofcom Illegal Harms Consultation –
- Response to Ofcom's Proposed Plan of Work 2024/5 –
- Response to DSIT consultation on the OSA super-complaint mechanism –
- Response to Ofcom's consultation on media literacy by design principles –
- Response to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum call for input on its 2024/5 workplan –
- Response to Ofcom call for evidence on categorisation –
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