The legislation is a necessary tool to hold tech companies and their leaders accountable for illegal content and incitement of violence on their platforms.

“Leighton is making the point that the the top people in the UK on Twitter should be up before the first available committee to ask whether they can justify what Musk has been doing and saying.”

The Online Safety Act is a complicated piece of legislation that would be more effective if it had more time to be implemented and tested.

“He was saying that if this act had come in a year ago, um, or had another year to bed in, um, we would be in a better situation cuz the Ofcom still consulting on some of it, some of the stuff still needs to be brought to Parliament.”