LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s media regulator on Wednesday slapped the United States (US) based host of an online forum blamed for 130 deaths in the United Kingdom (UK) with a £950,000 fine ($1.3 million) for “content encouraging and assisting suicide”.

Without naming the site, Ofcom said that the regulator had “concluded that the forum’s provider has failed — and continues to fail — to comply with its duties to assess and mitigate the risk of people in the UK encountering illegal content in its service”.

Ofcom also ordered the platform to take action to prevent British users from accessing content promoting suicide within 10 working days, or face being blocked in the UK.