{"id":371465,"date":"2022-11-27T02:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=371465"},"modified":"2022-11-27T03:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:42:36","slug":"online-self-harm-content-to-be-made-illegal-five-years-after-death-of-teenager-molly-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/online-self-harm-content-to-be-made-illegal-five-years-after-death-of-teenager-molly-russell","title":{"rendered":"Online self-harm content to be made illegal five years after death of teenager Molly Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online content that encourages self-harm will be criminalised, the government announced five years after the death of teenager Molly Russell . Culture secretary Michelle Donelan has announced that the Online Safety Bill will be updated to make encouraging self-harm via online posts, images, and videos illegal. This change in the law would bring self-harm content in line with content that encourages suicide &#8211; which is already illegal. The amendment to the legislation had been influenced by the case of 14-year-old Molly, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said. The teenager, from Harrow in northwest London, ended her life in November 2017 after viewing social media content linked to depression, self-harm, and suicide on Instagram and Pinterest. Senior coroner Andrew Walker had concluded that she &#8220;died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content&#8221; that &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t have been available for a child to see&#8221;. In October, he issued to Meta, Pinterest,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online content that encourages self-harm will be criminalised, the government announced five years after the death of teenager Molly Russell.Culture secretary Michelle Donelan has announced that the Online Safety Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}