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> Or is there a specific concern that this bill is a targeted overreach to increase censorship and surveillance.

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...

> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”





Thanks, this was good info. As an aside, I read the original source. I found the writing completely impenetrable and realized I know nothing about the British legislative process.

But this did, nonetheless, convince me that british legislators are interested in using this bill to regulate the internet.




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