UK users are cut adrift from current events by the Online Safety Act.

Platforms must moderate content that’s ‘harmful’.

A term that bursts the banks of porn to submerge news, advice and debate… it’s online censorship.

Tell your MP to FIX it ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #ukpolitics #ukpol #freeexpression #privacy #freespeech #censorship #freedomofexpression #digitalrights

UK users are cut adrift from current events by the Online Safety Act.

Platforms must moderate content that’s ‘harmful’.

A term that bursts the banks of porn to submerge news, advice and debate… it’s online censorship.

Tell your MP to FIX it ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #ukpolitics #ukpol #freeexpression #privacy #freespeech #censorship #freedomofexpression #digitalrights

India has ramped up efforts to police the internet by allowing officials to file takedown orders and to submit them directly to tech firms through a government website. X argues India's actions are illegal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/world/musk-modi-india-internet-censorship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #x #socialmedia #censorship #internet #elonmusk #india #narendramodi

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Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.

Sites are geoblocking the UK, overmoderating content, age-gating access or shutting down completely.

We need your help to track how content is being censored 🫵

Use our tool to report a site that's shutting down or restricting access to UK users as a result of the #OSA.

➡️ https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #censorship #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.

Sites are geoblocking the UK, overmoderating content, age-gating access or shutting down completely.

We need your help to track how content is being censored 🫵

Use our tool to report a site that's shutting down or restricting access to UK users as a result of the #OSA.

➡️ https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #censorship #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol

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#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism

#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism

Censorship of content relating to Palestine is a result of the UK government banning Palestine Action and duties placed on platforms by the UK Online Safety Act to moderate 'illegal' content.

Signatories to our open letter call on Ofcom to proactively defend the right to free expression.

Hear more from ORG's Prorgamme Manager, Sara Chitseko ⬇️

Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.
Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.

Censorship of content relating to Palestine is a result of the UK government banning Palestine Action and duties placed on platforms by the UK Online Safety Act to moderate 'illegal' content.

Signatories to our open letter call on Ofcom to proactively defend the right to free expression.

Hear more from ORG's Prorgamme Manager, Sara Chitseko ⬇️

Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.
Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.

The UK Online Safety Act requires platforms to assess and moderate 'illegal' content.

This mixed with the UK’s vague definition of terrorism could lead to content being wrongly flagged and removed.

This includes supportive posts about Palestine or protests and debate about the Palestine Action ban.

Read our open letter ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/publicatio

Censorship of content relating to Palestine is a result of the UK government banning Palestine Action and duties placed on platforms by the UK Online Safety Act to moderate 'illegal' content.

Signatories to our open letter call on Ofcom to proactively defend the right to free expression.

Hear more from ORG's Prorgamme Manager, Sara Chitseko ⬇️

Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.
Video by ORG's Programme Manager, Sara Chitseko, explaining how the ban on Palestine Action when combined with duties under the Online Safety Act to moderate content could lead to wide-ranging censroship of posts about Palestine and Gaza.

Just straight up imagining sh!t!🙄 NOT ONE TIME in that post did I mention or allude to Jewish ppl; some of whom are just as appalled as I am about the rapid implementation of #censorship happening. Go stomp somewhere else. My patience for nonsense is at -100% rn. 🙄 🤷🏿‍♀️

Generative AI assistants are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the ad revenue they desperately need, in a blow to an industry already fighting for survival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/tech/ai-search-media-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chatgpt #ai #fakenews #misinformation #media #journalism #pressfreedom #censorship #newspapers #magazines #internet #publishers

YO, SIGNAL BOOST THIS ⚠️🔁‼️⚠️

I'm archiving Youtube channels rn onto my collection of external HDs before the great August 13th purge/age check shit.

LET ME KNOW WHAT POTENTIALLY "NSFW"/QUEER CREATORS YALL WANNA SEE GET SAVED AND ARCHIVED!

Already got NyxFears and PhilosophyTube (as well as a lot of lowQ rips of a lot of other youtubers done before March 2025), also looking at WattsTheSafeword.

(forgot to make the last post public lol)

#youtube #queer#OnlineSafteyActUK #censorship #activism