On 12 May 2021, the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport published the draft Online Safety Bill (OSB), aiming to counter harmful content online and announced in a White Paper in April 2019. In July 2021, a Joint Committee on the draft was established by the House of Lords and House of Commons to consider the OSB and publish a report on its findings in December 2021. In late August-September, a call for written evidence to the draft OSB was published by the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee accepted written evidence on the draft OSB from July to September 2021.