--- title: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no... description: A UK Children's Commissioner report finds that the Online Safety Act has made no meaningful difference to children's online experiences, with kids reporting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/uk-s-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say-ukq11d2ve twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say | daily.dev og:description: A UK Children's Commissioner report finds that the Online Safety Act has made no meaningful difference to children's online experiences, with kids reporting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/uk-s-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say-ukq11d2ve og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ukQ11D2vE.png og:image:alt: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A UK Children's Commissioner report finds that the Online Safety Act has made no meaningful difference to children's online experiences, with kids reporting unchanged exposure to harmful content. The commissioner also criticizes Ofcom, the regulator overseeing the act, for a series of failures in enforcement. The page also aggregates unrelated headlines on AI models, security incidents, and open-source software releases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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