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Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Dubbed the UK censorship act these days, will it survive the political backlash we are witnessing? Will big tech work to get it right rather than cut off the UK? Can the UK put a stopper back in the bottle? Is this really about social media when it is pornhub doing the blocking? No mention of the fediverse in this article either sadly, but a good read nevertheless. And he has got something right: the US megas have been extreme amplifiers. But Pornhub is Canadian

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[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

like it or not, the UK government were elected to do this

that feels a bit of an overstatement ... the OSA is a Tory invention, so not electing Labour would not have changed that

It's not like there would have been any point voting for the Pirate Party or some other party just because you didn't want the OSA to come into force.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Labour have been authoritarian and anti-freedom for many many years. ID cards were Blairites dream for years, but the Lords threatened to rebel every time. Section 44 anti-terror legislation was under Brown, and is still a shit-show. RIPA also a Blair act. And now this

Labour are not champions of freedom