KATIE Price’s petition to make online abuse a specific criminal offence after her disabled son Harvey was targeted by trolls has won the backing of a parliamentary committee. A report by the House of Commons Petitions Committee said self-regulation of social media has failed and current laws are not fit for purpose. It added the Government and social media firms must directly consult with disabled people on digital strategy and hate crime law, and that social media firms need to accept responsibility for allowing “toxic environments to exist unchallenged”. The inquiry was launched after Price, 39, started a petition to make online abuse a specific criminal offence and create a register of offenders after highlighting the online abuse her son, Harvey, who is partially blind, autistic and has Prader-Willi syndrome. The petition had attracted more than 220,000 signatures before being closed early due to the 2017 general election. Our inquiry into online abuse and the experience of disabled people has shown that social media is rife with horrendous, degrading and dehumanising comments about people with disabilitiesCommittee chair Helen Jones MP .Committee chair Helen Jones MP said: ”The law on online abuse is not fit for purpose and it is truly shameful… Read full this story
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