Katie Price's online troll petition gets over 140,000 signatures

Brighton-born Katie Price set the petition up to make it a legal requirement when opening a new social media account, to provide a verified form of ID.

Katie Price stated on the petition: "My son Harvey is disabled. He is also the kind and gentle son of a person regularly in the public eye.

"The Online Harms Bill doesn’t go far enough in making online abuse a specific criminal offence and doing what ‘Harvey’s Law’ intended.

"To make the law work needs the removal of anonymity to ensure that users cannot cause harm by using online platforms to abuse others.

"Where an offence has taken place they ought to be easily identified and reported to the police and punished. We have experienced the worst kind of abuse towards my disabled son and want to make sure that no one can hide behind their crime". 

She tweeted last Thursday (March 11) when the signatures reached over 100,000, saying "together, we can make a difference" as Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate. 

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