The Online Safety Bill has terrifying implications

The Bill will not just regulate public social media – it also covers private communications like WhatsApp messages and even search engines VICTORIA HEWSON 27 June 2022 The Government’s Online Safety Bill continues to rumble its way through Parliament, despite criticism from free speech groups, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Independent Reviewer

Lord Frost warns that ‘flawed’ bill to clean up internet must be changed amid fears it could be ‘highly damaging’ to free speech

Lord Frost urged former conservative colleagues to scrap the Online Safety Bill It will outlaw comments on social media that would be legal in the real world Circulating fake news will lead to get material wiped if it is classified as ‘intentionally false or psychologically distressing’, says the bill By MARTIN BECKFORD FOR THE DAILY MAIL

We Need to Wake Up to the Dangers of the Online Safety Bill

I’ve just recorded an interview with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster for Triggernometry about the Online Safety Bill, pointing out the risks it poses to free speech. People are far more sanguine about this Bill than they should be – it’s not as if we haven’t been warned. Nadine Dorries, who as Secretary of State at DCMS

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23 april 2022

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26 april, 2022 The Online Safety Bill creates a new category of free speech wherethe Government deem such expression to be “harmful”. 🙄I wonder if questioning Govt policy, lockdowns, vaccines, Boris’s office parties etc, might be deemed harmful🙄 Under the threat of penalties, the legislation will compel onlineintermediaries to censor swathes of online discussionincluding in

Stuff that is lawful to say offline, even on television, will become prohibited online

This is the end of free speech online

The UK’s Online Safety Bill is an authoritarian nightmare. FRASER MYERSDEPUTY EDITOR 18th March 2022 The internet has changed radically in the past decade or so. Where social-media giants once boasted about being ‘the free speech wing of the free speech party’, in recent years, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms have become increasingly censorious,

One of the biggest threats to freedom of speech in our lifetimes

18 feb 2022 The Online Safety Bill https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:3c389626-34f9-392c-a373-dfdc602398e9 Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners Big Brother Watch Team / September 5, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on