Illegal content judgements - fitting the Illegal Harms consultation to the Online Safety Act

This is Part 5 of a series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Consultation under the Online Safety Act (OSA). Ofcom’s consultation (which closed in February 2024) ran to a mammoth 1728 pages, plus an additional 77 pages in its recent further consultation on torture and animal cruelty. The results of its consultation are expected in December. For readers not fully conversant with the OSA, the…