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UK Government Dodges Real Issues by Promising Even Stricter Censorship Laws

Officials hint at further crackdowns, sidestepping mounting concerns over free speech and international tensions.

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It's anybody's guess at this point: Are the UK's majority lawmakers oblivious, defiant, or for some other reason, known only to themselves - "feeling themselves"?

Amid myriad controversies centered on the way the country's government(s) have been choosing to treat free speech online for a while now - the "pinnacle" of which should have been the highly controversial Online Safety Act - reports now say there are UK parliament members who want yet more censorship laws to be enacted.

But tripling down, at this particular moment in domestic and international politics, why? To what end?

For a cabinet under all sorts of pressure, it might just be a matter of coming up with a negotiating stance, as the figurative waves keep crashing in.

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