Professor Lorna Woods:

It is borrowed from our health and safety at work legislation and is an obligation on the platform to take steps to prevent against reasonably foreseeable harms. It is pushing it back to a company and essentially saying to do a proper risk assessment, identify what is happening with one's platform and the way one has designed one's services. Where there are downsides, companies should try to mitigate these. This is in the context of the service provided. One would look at how large the platform was and also at the sort of services offered. Live video streaming, I would say, is quite a high risk thing to do, as opposed to just text. If one is aiming a service at children, then one will want more safeguards than if one is aiming at adults. This allows a certain flexibility to the company to do things in the way they want to, but within a framework of having to do it, keeping an eye on this, not just doing a tick-box exercise but to keep monitoring. I am afraid that the time for self-regulation is over.