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alecm

The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act | The Critic

Teenagers can now drink cider with a meal, two years before they can read a Reddit thread about it … Discussion channels about ongoing atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza, the subreddit dedicated to the news channel Al Jazeera are all now inaccessible to anyone who cannot or will not give Reddit their ID or a face scan to prove their age.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-perverse-outcomes-of-the-online-safety-act/

#ageVerification#censorship#onlineSafety
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi Farms claim that threats and fines they have received from Ofcom “constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech under U.S. law.”

Both entities say in the lawsuit that they are wholly based in the U.S. and that they do not have any operations in the United Kingdom and are therefore not subject to local laws. Ofcom’s attempts to fine and block 4chan and Kiwi Farms, and the lawsuit against Ofcom, highlight the messiness involved with trying to restrict access to specific websites or to force companies to comply with age verification laws.

The lawsuit calls Ofcom an “industry-funded global censorship bureau.”"

404media.co/4chan-and-kiwi-far

404 Media · 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification LawThe notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.
#UK#AgeVerification#NannyState
Pheonix

What's up with news of super urgently passed digital surveillance and privacy eroding laws by states around the world? Are they just picking up on it now or has the frequency actually increased? Seems coordinated among governments.

#privacy#surveillance#infosec
Variety

Jafar Panahi Will Travel to U.S. for ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Awards Campaign, Calls on Oscars to Change International Feature Rules: They Don’t Work for ‘Countries With Despotic Regimes’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #Censorship #JafarPanahi #Oscars

variety.com/2025/film/global/j

Jafar Panahi
Variety · Jafar Panahi Calls on Oscars to Change International Feature RulesBy Nick Vivarelli
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alecm

I’m absolutely gobsmacked that there is *mention* of “Scrapping the OSA” in PoliticsHome…

…even if it’s an argument against scrappage. Imran Ahmed of CCDH appeals to half-truths:

  • “nothing in the act requires the removal of lawful speech”
  • “[the OSA has] a proactive requirement to protect freedom of expression”, and
  • (para.) “Elon hates the OSA so it must be good”

They’re starting to worry…

…and if they are building their house on foundations of half truth then they are going to have a hard time in the long run.

The House | Claims that Online Safety Act curbs free speech ring hollow from platforms that seek to close down criticism

https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/claims-online-safety-act-curbs-free-speech-ring-hollow-platforms-seek-close-criticism

Politics Home · Claims that Online Safety Act curbs free speech ring hollow from platforms that seek to close down criticismScrapping the OSA would ignore the evidence of online harms that organisations like mine have spent years uncovering, from self-harm and suicide pr...
#ageVerification#ccdh#censorship
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