By now, you’d think Britain had learned a thing or two about overreaching imperial ambition. But no. Having long since lost its colonies and the government has lost its marbles, at least when it comes to civil liberties, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to revive its empire — this time not with redcoats and muskets, but with bureaucrats and PDFs. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Her Majesty’s Government is now attempting to annex the internet.
Thanks to the brain-meltingly draconian Online Safety Act 2023, a title so Orwellian it might as well have been scribbled in crayon on a Ministry of Truth notepad, the UK has decided that its censorship regime doesn’t just apply to British websites or British people, but to literally everyone, everywhere.
