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UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

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Re: UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

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Post by Mindwipe »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3
JoshTriplett wrote: post #2

Better alternative to first-party propaganda: https://www.eff.org/pages/uk-online-safety-bill-massive-thre...

Ofcom is an independent regulator; it's far from the "first-party" you're implying it is.

Ofcom really isn't actually independent on Online Safety in any way.

It has to obey instructions on prioritisation from the secretary of state and has no real operational flexibility.

As with much of the (dire) UK legislation here, the government saying something is true until it is blue in the face does not make it true.

Re: UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

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Post by [deleted] »

Mindwipe wrote: post #5
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ofcom is an independent regulator; it's far from the "first-party" you're implying it is.

Ofcom really isn't actually independent on Online Safety in any way. It has to obey instructions on prioritisation from the secretary of state and has no real operational flexibility. As with much of the (dire) UK legislation here, the government saying something is true until it is blue in the face does not make it true.

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Re: UK's Online Safety Act comes into force

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Post by turblety »

collyw wrote: post #6

The steady march towards authoritarianism continues. Is there any way that we can overwhelm them?

We can support projects like Autonomi [1] (the rebranded MaidSafe [2]). It should create what (I feel) the internet was always ment to be. Peer to peer communications.

I think the only solution to this is to stop the centralised mess the internet has become.

1. https://autonomi.com/

2. https://maidsafe.net/

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