ate Winslet has referred to as on the “people in power” to “criminalise harmful content” as she picked up the main actress gong on the Bafta TV awards.

The Oscar-winning actress, 47, starred alongside her daughter Mia Threapleton in I Am Ruth which chronicles the connection between a mom and baby who's coping with psychological well being pressures coming from the net world.

On Sunday, Winslet instructed the ceremony: “I Am Ruth was made for parents and their children, for families who feel that they are held hostage by the perils of the online world, for parents who wish they could still communicate with their teenagers, but who no longer can.

“And for young people who have become addicted to social media and its darker sides, this does not need to be your life to people in power, and to people who can make change, please, criminalise harmful content.

“Please eradicate harmful content, we don’t want it.

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“We want our children back.

“We don’t want to lie awake, terrified, by our children’s mental health and to any young person who might be listening, who feels that they are trapped in an unhealthy world.

“Please ask for help.

“There is no shame in admitting that you need support.

“It will be there just ask for it.”

Her feedback got here because the House of Lords continued its scrutiny of the Online Safety Bill, which goals to deal with unlawful and dangerous content material on-line.

Winslet stars as Ruth, a involved mom who witnesses her teenage daughter Freya, performed by 22-year-old Threapleton, retreating into herself as she turns into extra consumed by the pressures of social media within the two-hour programme.

It is an instalment of the female-led drama anthology sequence I Am, created by filmmaker Dominic Savage, which additionally picked up a Bafta on the night time for the programme with Winslet.

Each of the movies adopted the expertise of ladies in significantly uncooked, thought-provoking and private moments.