The Online Safety Act
2025-08-01
The UKs on-line “safety” act is quite possibly the most significant threat to freedom of speech we have ever seen in the UK. I would like to believe that its well meaning, preventing children accessing pornography is a good thing, however i firmly believe that this was never the goal of this act.
The act has already been used to force social media sites to sensor content relating to anti immigrant protests, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and even Spotify! This is not due to direct pressure from the government but due to the firms trying to protect themselves form the insane fines and even possible imprisonment, this is not a bug, its a feature. Why directly censor the internet when with threats of financial ruin and imprisonment you can make companies do it for you.