Big tech companies could be required to root out "legal but harmful" online content under UK Government proposals, prompting fears about a chill on free expression.

Damian Collins MP, Chair of the Joint Select Committee on the Online Safety Bill, has called for “extreme pornography” to be banned from the internet in the UK.

The UK Government has said it will broaden the scope of its Online Safety Bill to place a new legal duty on websites hosting pornography to introduce age verification controls

The UK government should provide children with “interim” protections from pornographic content by backing private members legislation before the House of Lords, CARE has said.

The most "insidious" images on the internet could evade government online safety legislation, a Committee of MPs has warned.

New legislation has been introduced at Westminster to challenge harmful images in advertising.