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The aberrant rise of platform liability in the UK

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Mahdi Assan
Nov 01, 2019
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In April 2019, the UK Government published the Online Harms White Paper.¹ This paper set out a new policy proposal designed to make the UK “the safest place in the world to go online.²

The Government plans to achieve this by imposing a new “statutory duty of care”³ on “companies that allow users to share or discover user-generated content, or interact wi…

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