Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union
freespeechunion.org
For years, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted the Online Safety Act would focus solely on illegal content without threatening free expression. But from the moment its age-verification duties took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      24 hours ago

      You would have to cut off the UK government and politicians from the rest of the worlds politicians, rather than cutting off the internet though. The idea to make these authoritarian laws is the contagious problem, not the people using the internet.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Well, those politicians will use the population as human shield and we couldn’t get to them, so the entire thing has to be cordonned off. I think encircling the entire island in a safety minefield, the entire perimeter and 50 kilometer deep, a anti-air curtain that covers the entire Island plus 200 km in all directions, cutting all communication cables going to the Island and a radio jamming system that neutralizes all communication devices with a power rating less then 5 terawatts on RF bands from 20kHz to 750 THz would be a good start.

        If that does not prove sufficient to silent the sources of this informational hazard infection then we will have to take serious measures such as sinking the whole thing by about 350 miles deep into the mantle.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    98·
    2 days ago

    Literally what we have been calling out China for since forever. Suppressing any and all content that isnt deemed “safe” is such an obvious attempt at censorship.

  • Naich@lemmings.worldEnglish
    66·
    2 days ago

    Read the comments in the other threads. Free Speech Union is run by an utter bell end called Toby Young, who resembles a potato but lacks the intelligence.

    • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      17·
      1 day ago

      I put a disclaimer under the article to take it with a grain of salt considering that the person running the site is shady and seems to be into eugenics yikes.

      • Naich@lemmings.worldEnglish
        36·
        2 days ago

        X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.

        and he thinks that an AI chatbot is a reliable source of information.

          • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
            9·
            1 day ago

            The film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was based on his memoir. He wrote of the UK Covid response

            spending £350 billion to prolong the lives of a few hundred thousand mostly elderly people is an irresponsible use of taxpayer’s money