UK NGO Types: "Nothing in the Online Safety Act requires the removal of lawful speech"
...unless you're American.
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...unless you're American.
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"The Online Safety Act is about preserving a status quo that benefited and enriched powerful platforms"
Then why were the UK's first targets a tiny American mental health discussion board and tiny sites with free speech moderation policies?
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Then why were the UK's first targets a tiny American mental health discussion board and tiny sites with free speech moderation policies?
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The truth of the matter: the Online Safety Act is designed to legislate the First Amendment out of existence online.
The UK went after free-speech platforms first - not Meta or Google - to ensure the whole Internet got that message.
They did not expect resistance.
The UK went after free-speech platforms first - not Meta or Google - to ensure the whole Internet got that message.
They did not expect resistance.
If someone in the UK calls me on the telephone, I am not suddenly teleported to England and subject to its rules.
When someone in the UK navigates to a US webserver, that server isn't teleported to England either.
When someone in the UK navigates to a US webserver, that server isn't teleported to England either.
CCDH, more or less: "X's free speech crusade is hollow, because we beat their lawsuit against us on First Amendment grounds."
"And we will use that lawsuit victory to continue in our important work of making sure that nobody in the UK can have those same speech rights online."
"And we will use that lawsuit victory to continue in our important work of making sure that nobody in the UK can have those same speech rights online."
There are literally a zillion ways that the UK could achieve the stated aims of the Online Safety Act without censoring the global web.
What the Online Safety Act does is purport to tell the Americans the First Amendment doesn't exist.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
What the Online Safety Act does is purport to tell the Americans the First Amendment doesn't exist.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
The OSA is a national crap sandwich. Easily circumvented by VPN, makes running a UK-res webforum cost-prohibitive, driving investment out, wrecking the UK's global reputation.
The only reason it's still there is because of pro-censorship activists in govt/Lords and inertia.
The only reason it's still there is because of pro-censorship activists in govt/Lords and inertia.
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