Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

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
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

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

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Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

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
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

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
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

“The [UK] Online Safety Act risks silencing a generation."

It's “a fundamental encroachment on the right to freedom of expression to impart and receive information. Older teenagers engaging with political debates or current events may be cut off from vital sources of information because platforms will err on the side of removal to avoid hefty penalties.”

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2089661/online-safety-law-watchdog

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Algorithms will hyperactively dredge feeds of what's 'illegal' and 'harmful'.

Both terms are wishy washy in the UK Online Safety Act.

So platforms will over-moderate rather than get hit with penalties for a finger in the air judgement. Censorship is baked into the equation, and that's why the OSA threatens free expression.

Tell your MP to FIX IT ⬇️

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

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol #freeexpression #privacy #agegate #ageverification
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

“The [UK] Online Safety Act risks silencing a generation."

It's “a fundamental encroachment on the right to freedom of expression to impart and receive information. Older teenagers engaging with political debates or current events may be cut off from vital sources of information because platforms will err on the side of removal to avoid hefty penalties.”

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2089661/online-safety-law-watchdog

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Algorithms will hyperactively dredge feeds of what's 'illegal' and 'harmful'.

Both terms are wishy washy in the UK Online Safety Act.

So platforms will over-moderate rather than get hit with penalties for a finger in the air judgement. Censorship is baked into the equation, and that's why the OSA threatens free expression.

Tell your MP to FIX IT ⬇️

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

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol #freeexpression #privacy #agegate #ageverification
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

“The [UK] Online Safety Act risks silencing a generation."

It's “a fundamental encroachment on the right to freedom of expression to impart and receive information. Older teenagers engaging with political debates or current events may be cut off from vital sources of information because platforms will err on the side of removal to avoid hefty penalties.”

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2089661/online-safety-law-watchdog

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety#OSA #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Remember, the Government who was entertaining the Worlds Most Famous Living Paedo last week is telling us we're all child predators.....

#OnlineSafetyAct#PeterKyle#Labour#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#Trump#Epstein

This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work. The UK has managed to create a law so poorly designed that it simultaneously violates privacy, restricts freedom, harms small businesses, and completely fails at its stated goal of protecting children. And all of this was predictable. Hell, it was predicted. Civil society groups, activists, legal experts, all warned of these results and were dismissed by the likes of Peter Kyle as supporting child predators.
This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work. The UK has managed to create a law so poorly designed that it simultaneously violates privacy, restricts freedom, harms small businesses, and completely fails at its stated goal of protecting children. And all of this was predictable. Hell, it was predicted. Civil society groups, activists, legal experts, all warned of these results and were dismissed by the likes of Peter Kyle as supporting child predators.
This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work. The UK has managed to create a law so poorly designed that it simultaneously violates privacy, restricts freedom, harms small businesses, and completely fails at its stated goal of protecting children. And all of this was predictable. Hell, it was predicted. Civil society groups, activists, legal experts, all warned of these results and were dismissed by the likes of Peter Kyle as supporting child predators.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Remember, UK Technology Minister Peter Kyle thinks we're all 'peados'

This is the state of British politics right now, the state of UKGOV

#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#PeterKyle #OnlineSafetyAct#Labour

But then, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle deployed the classic authoritarian playbook: dismissing all criticism as support for child predators. This isn’t just intellectually dishonest—it’s a deliberate attempt to shut down legitimate policy debate by smearing critics as complicit in child abuse. It’s particularly galling given that the law Kyle is defending will do absolutely nothing to stop actual predators, who will simply migrate to unregulated platforms or use the same VPNs that law-abiding citizens are now flocking to. Peter Kyle & of \ @peterkyle If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.
But then, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle deployed the classic authoritarian playbook: dismissing all criticism as support for child predators. This isn’t just intellectually dishonest—it’s a deliberate attempt to shut down legitimate policy debate by smearing critics as complicit in child abuse. It’s particularly galling given that the law Kyle is defending will do absolutely nothing to stop actual predators, who will simply migrate to unregulated platforms or use the same VPNs that law-abiding citizens are now flocking to. Peter Kyle & of \ @peterkyle If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.
But then, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle deployed the classic authoritarian playbook: dismissing all criticism as support for child predators. This isn’t just intellectually dishonest—it’s a deliberate attempt to shut down legitimate policy debate by smearing critics as complicit in child abuse. It’s particularly galling given that the law Kyle is defending will do absolutely nothing to stop actual predators, who will simply migrate to unregulated platforms or use the same VPNs that law-abiding citizens are now flocking to. Peter Kyle & of \ @peterkyle If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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.
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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.
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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.