New Online Safety Bill will be a disaster for freedom of speech
It is based on the concept of "Duty of Care": proactive censorship of entirely legal content on the basis of potential psychological harms.
The Duty of Care Framework comes from a consortium of "be kind" NGOs
It is based on the concept of "Duty of Care": proactive censorship of entirely legal content on the basis of potential psychological harms.
The Duty of Care Framework comes from a consortium of "be kind" NGOs
Also these ones.....
As @IndexCensorship warn "The proponents of the draft Online Safety Bill have created a new construct, the Duty of Care, that bypasses both Parliament and the Courts, in order to create a new framework for private censorship."
"That this has happened with so little debate, or scrutiny, is of deep concern and could have major
implications both within the UK and across the globe..."
(where have we seen that before?)
implications both within the UK and across the globe..."
(where have we seen that before?)
"The framework is one where the state must sanction the social network if it does not proactively reduce the space for ideas, concepts or content that could cause harm to
individuals psychological well-being."
individuals psychological well-being."
In principle this is a bad idea.
And individuals who have been banned, reported, investigated and sanctioned for saying perfectly ordinary things about sex know it is a bad idea
And individuals who have been banned, reported, investigated and sanctioned for saying perfectly ordinary things about sex know it is a bad idea
This might be pushed through by sleeping politicians and an electorate that thinks "it will affect really, really nasty online".
But it is clear that these orgs have branded nearly everyone Transphobes and put fear into them at work are not to be trusted with our freedom.
But it is clear that these orgs have branded nearly everyone Transphobes and put fear into them at work are not to be trusted with our freedom.
Read the @IndexCensorship report and @NickCohen4 's article
Follow #legaltosaylegaltotype
I think we are going to have to pay attention to this
indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/upl…
Follow #legaltosaylegaltotype
I think we are going to have to pay attention to this
https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1408013222154809347
indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/upl…
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