US EditionEveryday Philosophy: The Online Safety Bill Is in Danger of Going Too Far
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When the left governs, there is rarely something good going on. Even in Great Britain, where the SPD and SPÖ's sister party, Labour, have installed a massive censorship mechanism on the Internet by law. Freedom of expression? Diversity of opinion? Misrepresentation. Britain is more and more like an authoritarian intranet state – similar to Cuba, China or Iran. For a few days, the Online Safety Act has been in force – a law that is officially int…
On July 25, the "Online Safety Act" came into force in the United Kingdom. Similar laws and projects also exist in Ireland, the EU and the USA. They are intended to protect children from pornography and "harmful content", but censorship goes much further. – A comment by Marceline Horn. On July 25, users: inside the platform X (formerly Twitter) in the EU and the United Kingdom, and suddenly it was different than usual. Posts they could still see…
Jersey not "hooking in" to UK Online Safety Act "might be a good thing" - Jersey Evening Post
JERSEY not opting to “hook in” to the UK’s controversial Online Safety Act may have worked in the Island’s favour, according to a senior scrutineer – as ministers push ahead with the development of bespoke legislation to help protect children online. Grouville Constable Mark Labey said that there were “a lot of inadequacies” within the UK Act, which places a range of new duties on social media companies and search services. Mr Labey is vice-chai…
News Summary: Online Safety Act and EU AI Laws Raise Concerns for Writers and Publishers
The Online Safety Act is a piece of U.K. legislation, but as I have been reporting for some years, it affects all of us. And that’s because, as is the way with national legislation, it doesn’t just impact the citizens of a country—its reach extends to everyone who wants to deal with that country. And that includes those who want to sell into its market, which is a lot of us who write in, or translate into, English. The post News Summary: Online …
Study Claims UK Public WiFi Networks Failing Child Safety Standards
A new study from Guest Metrics, which has a vested interest in selling content filtering solutions, claims to have identified “widespread failures in public WiFi compliance” after it identified that 80% of the venues it tested had no content filtering (no age checks, no splash pages, no logging) to protect children from adult content – a key part of the UK government’s new Online Safety Act (2023). According to the study, many of these networks …
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