New rules promise the biggest ever change to online safety policy. Britain will be one of the safest places in the world to be online

A few weeks ago, visiting the NSPCC, I met young people who spoke candidly about their online lives – the good and the bad. Several of them told me they were scared: scared of cyberbullying; scared of grooming; and scared about whatever they might scroll to see next.

Many of these children had been left distraught by the horrific images and videos they had seen online. Some of them felt powerless in the face of an anonymous algorithm that was feeding them more and more of this distressing content. Reporting it was difficult. Even if they succeeded in getting one disturbing post taken down, they knew that it wouldn’t be long before they saw another.