Overview
- The government has tabled amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill to ban possession and publication of pornography showing strangulation or suffocation.
- The offences would be made a priority under the Online Safety Act, imposing proactive legal duties on platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material.
- Ministers say companies should deploy moderation, stricter content policies or automated detection to block the content before it spreads.
- Non‑compliant platforms could face Ofcom enforcement, including fines of up to £18m.
- A separate amendment extends the time limit to report intimate‑image abuse to three years, up from six months.