Has it not struck anybody how farcical it is that a sixteen year old can legally participate in a gang bang, but can’t look at some of the content on Wikipedia?
#OSA
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Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!
Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.
We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #NetPlurality #ukpol #ukpolitics #wikipedia #freedomofexpression
Edited 121d 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
Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules
Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.
The new requirement comes after the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platformsto block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm.
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
Edited 41d ago
no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance
The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.
You can download Wikipedia by installing the @kiwix app https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
Then use https://library.kiwix.org/ to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser