An amendment being proposed for the Online Safety Bill would create a new criminal offence of 'intentionally sharing a photograph or film that facilitates or promotes modern slavery or illegal immigration'.
An amendment being proposed for the Online Safety Bill would create a new criminal offence of"intentionally sharing a photograph or film that facilitates or promotes modern slavery or illegal immigration"."TikTok traffickers" who use social media to advertise small boat crossings to migrants must face criminal penalties, ministers have been told.
Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke believes the advertising of Channel crossings on networks such as TikTok and Facebook should be recognised as a crime. Speaking during a Commons debate on the Online Safety Bill, the Dover MP - whose constituency is at the forefront of the UK's migration crisis - suggested criminalising such online promotions would save lives and help stem the business model of trafficking groups.
Ms Elphicke highlighted the"massive increase in the number of Albanians crossing the Channel in small boats" - and said it had become"easy to find criminal gangs posting in Albanian on TikTok with videos showing cheery migrants with thumbs up on dinghies scooting across the Channel and motoring into Britain with ease".
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