Loading ...Meanwhile, while no one was watching…….UK quietly passes “Online Safety Bill” into law
As always with these things, the bill’s text is a challenging and rather dull read, deliberately obscure in its language and difficult to navigate.
Rather amusingly, the bill makes it a crime to “send a message” containing false information in clause 156…then immediately grants immunity to every newspaper, television channel and streaming service in clause 157.
Apparently it’s OK for the mainstream media to be harmful and dishonest.
But the primary purpose of the new law is a transfer of responsibility to enable and incentivize censorship.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/09/20/uk-quietly-passes-online-safety-bill-into-law/
UK Online Safety Bill text –> https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0209/220209.pdf
Messaging services like watsap, signal and telegram will be forced to exit the UK market.
Meta and others may also need to exit, as legal risks too high a cost.
UK slowly but surely quietly shutting down SME private sector in its economy.