5: Can the Government Stop Internet Harms?

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Will Perrin of Carnegie UK Trust about the upcoming (sometime soon!) Digital Harms Bill. What are the ideas behind the government’s proposals? Will they work? Talking points:Where does the idea of a ‘duty of care’ on which the legislation will be based come from?What does it cover - and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t it cover?Are we agreed about what is harmful?How can global tech companies be persuaded to comply?Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram

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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt  explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.