[RichardCoulter]

Well, we shall have to wait and see what the new laws look like and how they work in practice.

Making site owners have a legal duty of care to their users and becoming liable for what their users publish on the internet under the threat of heavy fines should make them act more responsibly to protect vulnerable people.

We simply cannot continue with a situation where people are made ill, have their quality of life affected or are driven to suicide.

These new laws aren't just about dealing with trolls/bullies/bigots whatever you want to call them, it's also about protecting children, those with mental health or disability issues etc. There are actually sites that allow users to encourage suicide, anorexia and self harm, whilst others are failing to comply with the Equality Act eg refusing to make adjustments to help disabled people.

There's a whole host of things out there that need to be dealt with; i'm hoping that scammers will be included too. It cannot be right that popular commercial sites take money from known fraudsters to advertise on their platform.

I'm quietly confident that freedom of speech won't be impacted for the majority of right thinking, decent people.