Abstract
The massive use of the Internet has exposed users to a large amount of offensive conducts of third parties, directly affecting the rights and freedoms of individuals. In order to promote a online safe space, different comparative legislative initiatives have begun to tackle online harms, requiring certain duties of moderation from platforms. However, the concept of online harm is subjective, especially if we consider that it includes content that is not illegal but is considered harmful or damaging. In view of the above, this paper aims to study the different conducts that can be subsumed under the concept of legal but harmful content in the light of the taxonomy of harms offered in the UK White Paper on Online Harm and then propose a definition of online harm that serves as a basis for an organic and coherent regulation of the conducts that must be mitigated and controlled in digital environments.
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