The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale for democracies regulating the internet
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking …
Techdirt Mike Masnick
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@glynmoody
Glyn Moody
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Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About - www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/ d... “exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster” great takedown by @mmasnick.bsky.social #osa #…
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@jennykaynz
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UK age verification law stops young sex assault survivors from contacting support agencies. Smokers can't get quitting help. Like education institutes using porn filters that stop nursing students from learning about breast cancer or helping new mothers feed babies — www.tech…
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Ben Werdmuller
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“Yes, you read that right. A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities.” www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/ d...
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Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports pred…
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The online safety act seems flawed, I don't believe it'll achieve what they want. I'd like to be proved wrong on that. But its clear to me now that this will at least backfire by becoming another policy that radicalises more people towards the hard right. www.theguardian.com/te…
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