Topic: Online Safety Act

The Online Safety Act is the UK’s most reckless assault on internet freedom to date. Dressed up as child protection, it hands Ofcom the power to dictate what platforms may host, threatens fines large enough to guarantee that companies delete first and ask questions later, and forces ordinary adults to hand over their ID or submit to a face scan just to read lawful content. Its pressure on encrypted messaging would strip away the last real protection private conversations have. Smaller sites have already shut off UK access rather than comply, and the result is a smaller, more surveilled, more timid internet, exactly as designed.