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Superjuden t1_iy4fb2l wrote

Reply to comment by ww_crimson in Encouraging self-harm to be criminalised in Online Safety Bill by speckz

It's probably mostly going to be used in cases of cyberbullying. Cases where people contact others under fake names and just tell them to kill themselves for example aren't that uncommon. Then there's people like O9A who has had a few of their adherents contacting people, often minors, online and getting them to commit acts of self harm and send images and videos as proof which the O9A people use as personal trophies. O9A is fairly active in the UK and do a variety insane shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles

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Ancalimei t1_iy4pxhj wrote

This. I had lots of bullies telling me to kill myself or cut myself or drink bleach when I was in high school and even afterwards. I’m all kinds of fucked up now. I wish the people who tortured me for years could get some kind of recompense for the harm they did to me.

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hdjunkie t1_iy56gpp wrote

Sorry that happened to you and I agree

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vikko212 t1_iy79zzr wrote

from the artical, emphasis mine:

>the update to the Online Safety Bill would create a new offence, bringing self-harm content in line with communications that encourage suicide - which is already illegal.

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