2023-09-20
Heart-sink moment. Free speech online, already fragile, now subject to unprecedented interference & regulation in UK. Gov have designed regime but outsourced power to unelected quango. #OnlineSafetyBill now law, claims will rein in Big Tech, but instead instructs: censor or else
TechCrunch
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days
Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
2022-11-03
Pleased to see egregious “legal but harmful” clause dropped. But much left in #OnlineSafetyBill is dangerously censorious. Not least policing weazle word misinformation. Also v premise of bill is: online speech of all sorts is harmful & needs 2B regulated. No room for complacency https://twitter.com/...
The i Paper
Source: the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill's controversial “legal but harmful” content rules, leaving them only for material targeted at children
EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer
2022-09-08
So important. Let's make sure that the new Government knows censorship fears we all have in terms of #OnlineSafetyBill https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss confirms she wants to dilute the draft Online Safety Bill, focusing on protecting minors while making sure free speech is allowed
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2020-01-26
This was a highly controversial, censorious change, even amongst MEPs on all sides of political divide. They tried to resist it but in end succumbed to pressure from EU powers on high. Glad to see back of it; a genuine #brexitdividend - therefore shocking some UK MEPs mourning it https://twitter.com/...
Trusted Reviews
UK's science minister Chris Skidmore says the UK won't implement EU's Copyright Directive, which includes Article 13, after the country leaves the EU
One of the most intriguing aspects of Britain's departure from the European Union will be which elements of EU law will be dropped and retained … Source: BBC .