“British Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan announced in a statement to parliament that measures to tackle “illegal immigration” had been added to the ongoing Online Safety Bill.
Donelan said that stopping crossings of the channel was a government priority, and that “organised crime groups are increasingly using social media to facilitate migrant crossings”.
She added that it was an offence to “arrange the travel of another person, including through recruitment, with a view to their exploitation,” and that “aiding, abetting, counselling and conspiring” in such offences would be cracked down on.
“Posting videos of people crossing the channel which show that activity in a positive light could be an offence that is committed online and therefore falls within what is priority illegal content,” Donelan said.”
That could in the last sentence means that, if this bill passes, not all videos of people crossing the channel which show that activity in a positive light would be offenses.
> We will also add Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 to the priority offences list in Schedule 7. Although the offences in Section 24 cannot be carried out online, paragraph 33 of the Schedule states that priority illegal content includes the inchoate offences relating to the offences that are listed. Therefore aiding, abetting, counselling, conspiring etc those offences by posting videos of people crossing the channel which show that activity in a positive light could be an offence that is committed online and therefore falls within what is priority illegal content. The result of this amendment would therefore be that platforms would have to proactively remove that content.
“British Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan announced in a statement to parliament that measures to tackle “illegal immigration” had been added to the ongoing Online Safety Bill.
Donelan said that stopping crossings of the channel was a government priority, and that “organised crime groups are increasingly using social media to facilitate migrant crossings”.
She added that it was an offence to “arrange the travel of another person, including through recruitment, with a view to their exploitation,” and that “aiding, abetting, counselling and conspiring” in such offences would be cracked down on.
“Posting videos of people crossing the channel which show that activity in a positive light could be an offence that is committed online and therefore falls within what is priority illegal content,” Donelan said.”
That could in the last sentence means that, if this bill passes, not all videos of people crossing the channel which show that activity in a positive light would be offenses.
So posting videos of people swimming the channel or of the Gossamer Albatross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCready_Gossamer_Albatross) likely wouldn’t be illegal.