Tech firms face demands to stop illegal content going viral
Oliver Griffiths, online safety group director at Ofcom, said its proposed measures seek to build on existing UK online safety rules but keep up with "constantly evolving" risks.
These could also include making some larger platforms assess whether they need to proactively detect terrorist material under further online safety measures.
The UK regulator published a consultation on Monday seeking views on further protections to keep citizens, particularly children, safer online.
Tech platforms could be forced to prevent illegal content from going viral and limit the ability for people to send virtual gifts to or record a child's livestream, under more online safety measures proposed by Ofcom.
"We're holding platforms to account and launching swift enforcement action where we have concerns," he said.
"But technology and harms are constantly evolving, and we're always looking at how we can make life safer online."
The consultation highlighted three main areas in which Ofcom thinks more could be done:
stopping illegal content going viral
tackling harms at source
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