Oliver Dowden
UK Deputy Prime Minister Was In Charge Of Secretive Unit Monitoring Covid Dissent
Dowden was Culture Secretary at the time.
UK Culture Secretary boasts about shadowy “anti-disinformation” unit; “daily we have contact with the online providers”
The unit provides no transparency.
UK government wants Facebook to meet its censorship demands faster
Government-induced censorship.
The UK Government Has A Little-Known Censorship Unit
Details about the shadowy unit.
UK considers regulating platforms like Netflix for “misinformation”
Something else the government wants to police.
Ironic: Architect of UK online censorship bill condemns cancelation of cricket star for “offensive” tweets
The bill will require Big Tech platforms to censor the types of tweets that were at the center of this cancelation.
The Online Safety Bill is a major blow to the UK’s already-feeble free speech rights
It’s the most far-reaching online censorship law the UK has ever proposed.
UK to force platforms to remove content that’s “illegal on the street”
An Online Safety law is coming this year.
Could “fact checkers” be coming to streaming services? UK culture secretary lashes out at “The Crown” accuracy
Having blighted other aspects of internet life, could “fact checkers” be coming to streaming drama? Oliver Dowden must think the public is dumb.
UK Labour Party calls for social platforms to be punished if they don’t delete vaccine-skeptical conversations
Trying to kill even more civil liberties.