by Tech companies and individual managers are determined together with a fine of up to 70,000 GBP due to a postal crime that is not removed for their locations.
The government has expanded a previously announced plan to punish individual Tech bosses £ 10,000 if their platform is not connected to razor crime, and will now issue additional fines of up to 60,000 GBP to a company if they do not remove individual areas.
The Home Office said that the sanctions were part of plans to combat content that glorify or stimulate illegal knives and other offensive weapons against young people as well as violence.
The laws will also be liable for a larger selection of platforms, including search engines, social media platforms and online marketplaces to record all online providers that are currently not being removed.
They are introduced in a change in the crime and police law.
The Minister of Crime and Police, lady Diana Johnson, said: “The kind of content that young people search online every day is disgusting, and I will not accept an idea that the restriction of access to this harmful material is too difficult.
“Our children need more of us. That is why we are now going further than ever to take the Tech companies into account that do not do enough to protect young people from content, especially in the event of violence, especially boys.
“The containment of the effects of this type of content will be the key to our mission to halve the razor crime, but our plan for changing the government that protects young people from harmful and dangerous content.”
The development takes place after OFCOM has announced the final version of its practice codes in accordance with the online security law to protect children from damage to online.
Patrick Green, managing director of the charity organization of knife crime, Ben Kinsella Trust, said: “The presentation of knife crime in social media has significantly hindered the efforts to reduce it.
“Apart from the fact that they only normalize, glorify and desensitize young people, it has often provided an illegal possibility of buying knives without adequate protective measures such as proper age review.
“Social -Media companies and their managers have repeatedly not addressed these problems.
“Therefore, I welcome today’s announcement of the government to take decisive measures and to account for these managers.
“I also thank the government for listening to the coalition to combat knife crime and to expand these sanctions on social media companies that are responsible for keeping young people safe on their platforms.”
