Online Safety Bill
The UK’s shadowy “counter-disinformation unit” has shifted from Covid to war
Actively getting select speech removed from social media platforms.
The UK Online Safety Bill has laughable free speech and privacy “protections”
The protections don’t apply when platforms censor so-called “harmful” content.
UK blocks Labour lawmaker that wanted news outlets to register with dystopian regulator
Dodging censorship proposals.
Labour and SNP demand “health misinformation” controls be added to UK’s controversial “Online Safety Bill”
As if the bill wasn’t bad enough.
UK communications regulator tells tech platforms to protect women from “potential harms”
Yet, the regulator admits that these so-called “potential harms” may not cause any actual harm.
UK’s online censorship bill faces Conservative backlash
A challenge to the overreaching censorship proposals.
UK asks Elon Musk to discuss Twitter user authentication as it pushes bill that mandates age verification tech
Musk has signaled that he’ll respect anonymity whereas the UK bill contains no protections for anonymous users.
60 countries sign declaration that commits to bolstering “resilience to disinformation and misinformation”
Pro-censorship governments unite.
Rumble CEO: We won’t operate in countries that move towards censorship
Pushing back against government attempts to restrict free speech.
Members
UK censorship bill will impact small, independent media outlets while giving large media outlets a pass
Further entrenching these legacy institutions.
