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The UK’s Proposed Online Forums Bill Is Another Example of Why Hate Speech Laws Shouldn’t Be a Thing

these terms could easily be used to suppress free speech and censor people through the legal system.

• A group of UK Members of Parliament (MPs) are asking the government to consider the Online Forums Bill - a bill which would potentially make online forum administrators and moderators responsible for illegal content that is posted to their forums

• The author of the bill, Lucy Powell MP, is also suggesting that the bill would require online forum administrators and moderators to remove content that has been deemed harmful and damaging and that the bill could be used to tackle online hate, fake news, and radicalization

• However, the bill itself contains no reference to harmful and damaging content, hate, fake news, or radicalization, so it’s unclear how Powell’s statements apply to the bill

A group of UK MPs are asking for parliamentary time to debate and vote on the Online Forums Bill - a bill which if passed would make online forum administrators and moderators responsible for illegal content that’s posted to their forums.

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