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The Online Safety Bill gives the UK government unprecedented power to determine “harmful” content
State-appointed officials will dictate online speech rules in the country.
UK censorship bill tasks Big Tech with deciding when something is “illegal” or “fraudulent”
Silicon Valley enforcers get to skip the police and the courts.
Proposed UK law will jail people whose speech causes “psychological harm” with “no reasonable excuse”
Maximum penalty of up to two years in prison.
Scottish lawmakers demand curbs on online speech
More calls for censorship.
Members
UK to launch new digital ID technology next month as part of nationwide digital ID push
The tech will allow governments and businesses to share data for digital ID checks.
Twitter censored Oxford academic who shared Daily Mail article about inflated Covid deaths
Twitter backtracked, admitting it got it wrong.
The UK Online Safety Bill explained: A reckless threat to free speech
A carelessly-written bill. Sweeping government censorship powers. Big Tech speech police. And more.
Twitter says it was a mistake to block links to news outlet The Federalist
An increasingly common “mistake.”
Twitter blocked links to Daily Mail article that questioned Covid death stats
Suggested the link was “unsafe.”
UK Online Safety Bill, that will censor some “legal but harmful” content, presented to Parliament
Knowingly false communications and more will also be restricted.
Experiment shows UK’s pro-censorship politicians have their own past comments deleted by Facebook
The warning comes before the UK enacts one of the biggest attacks on free speech in a liberal democracy with the “Online Safety Bill.”