Tech bosses could face jail time for failing to protect children online, after a backbench rebellion.
The bill would oblige managers of sites hosting user-generated content, including social media sites, to take "proportionate measures" to stop children seeing harmful material.
Making managers liable for a failure to comply with broader safety duties in the bill was rejected after aahead of the bill's introduction, which concluded it could make the UK tech sector less attractive. In exchange, the government has now agreed to introduce an amendment of its own along similar lines when the bill gets to the House of Lords - giving ministers more time to work on the wording.
Sir Bill Cash, a leading Tory rebel, told the BBC the agreement with ministers was a "huge step forward", adding that senior managers in the sector "will not want to run the risk of going to jail".
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