![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/urgent-need-for-web-hate-crackdown-as-plymouth-shootings-anniversary-looms/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Diverse-computer-hacking-shoot.jpg&description=Shadow Tech Minister Alex Davies-Jones called on the Government to speed up its overhaul of online safety rules ahead of the two-year anniversary of a horror shooting spree Labour has urged the Government to press ahead with tougher rules for social media firms as the anniversary of a hate-filled murderer's shooting spree looms. Jake Davison, 22, killed five people during a shotgun rampage in Keyham, Plymouth, on August 12, 2021. Next Saturday marks two years since the attack in which Davison killed his mother Maxine, 51; Sophie Martyn, three; her father Lee, 43; Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66, before turning the gun on himself. An inquest jury earlier this year heard he held strongly misogynistic views and made 'disturbing' online posts. The revelations sparked fresh calls for a clampdown on web hate - and demands for ministers to speed-up the long-delayed Online Safety Bill. The legislation was going through its Lords stages before Parliament went into recess for the summer. Supporters of a crackdown highlighted this week's legal threat by billionaire Elon Musk, who owns X Corp - which runs the social media platform formerly known as Twitter - to sue an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the social media platform. X Corp accused the London-based Centre for Countering Digital Hate of "unlawful acts" to "improperly gain access" to its data. But CCDH's chief executive Imran Ahmed hit back saying: "Elon Musk's latest legal threat is straight out of the authoritarian playbook - he is now showing he will stop at nothing to silence anyone who criticises him." Shadow Tech Minister Alex Davies-Jones said the row between X Corp and CCDH, coupled with the approaching anniversary of the Plymouth attack, showed why the Government needed to urgently press ahead with its shake-up. "We've had six years of Tory broken promises on online safety,' she told the Mirror. 'The watchdogs lack power and social media firms aren't taking responsibility for the c){kind=link}
Shadow Tech Minister Alex Davies-Jones called on the Government to speed up its overhaul of online safety rules ahead of the two-year anniversary of a horror shooting spree
Labour has urged the Government to press ahead with tougher rules for social media firms as the anniversary of a hate-filled murderer’s shooting spree looms.
Jake Davison, 22, killed five people during a shotgun rampage in Keyham, Plymouth, on August 12, 2021. Next Saturday marks two years since the attack in which Davison killed his mother Maxine, 51; Sophie Martyn, three; her father Lee, 43; Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66, before turning the gun on himself.
An inquest jury earlier this year heard he held strongly misogynistic views and made “disturbing” online posts. The revelations sparked fresh calls for a clampdown on web hate – and demands for ministers to speed-up the long-delayed Online Safety Bill. The legislation was going through its Lords stages before Parliament went into recess for the summer.
Supporters of a crackdown highlighted this week’s legal threat by billionaire Elon Musk, who owns X Corp – which runs the social media platform formerly known as Twitter – to sue an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the social media platform.