[RichardCoulter]

I've just been watching an interview from todays This Morning programme. Mollys father and Michelle Donelan the Secretary for Culture, Media & Sport appeared together.

The Secretary for the DCMS said that this new approach to the harmful but legal content is actually better. She went on to say that the legal but harmful provisions would be retained for children.

For adults she said that websites would have to say whether they allowed legal, but harmful content. If they didn't allow it users would be protected, if they did the person then had an opportunity to block the site.

Instead of ignoring complaints, websites will now be obliged to remove illegal content or content that breaches their own terms & conditions.

Websites will also have to give users more control over what they see. Age verification was mentioned, so I assume that age verification will be required to ensure that under 18's aren't exposed to legal, but harmful content. She also said that young people today are tech savvy and know how to get around restrictions eg by lying about their age when registering.- age verification will allow websites owners to keep out under 18's and stop them from falling foul of the law by inadvertently exposing young people to inappropriate material. This is important when you consider that they could face substantial fines or even imprisonment for doing so.

Mollys father produced printouts of what had been sent to his daughter after she had found websites about suicide when researching the subject. Numerous messages were sent to her encouraging her to take her own life eg 'Nobody wans to date a suicidal girl'. On the face of it this remark is (currently) a legal, but harmful, thing to say to a suicidal girl.

Whilst he still thought that the Bill had been watered down, he accepted that this was necessary to ensure the Bill passed into law relatively quickly and that this was necessary in order to save future lives from being lost.