At the end of July, the UK government enforced its “online safety” regime. The pretext is to keep children safe online. As a collection of articles from 1 August reveals, it has kick-started a censorship and surveillance frenzy with governments in Europe, the USA and Russia aggressively controlling all the content all internet users view and censoring information at will.
Big Tech is complicit; they are willing accomplices to obtaining and controlling our data.
Government regulations and diktats about online activity do not keep children safe; they were never intended to protect children. There is only one way to keep your child safe online, and that is to keep them offline unless they are being closely supervised by a parent, as the sensible Pasco County Sheriff recently advised.
The UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 officially came into force at the end of July, marking the beginning of one of the most comprehensive online “safety” regulatory frameworks in the world. This legislation imposes significant duties on online platforms, requiring them to conduct risk assessments, implement proportionate systems to manage illegal and “harmful” content, and “protect children” from age-inappropriate material.
The Act empowers Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, to enforce these duties, with the authority to impose fines of up to £18 million or 10% of a company’s global revenue, whichever is higher. The law applies to a wide range of services, including social media, video-sharing sites, and search engines, both within and outside the UK, if they pose a material risk of harm to UK users.
The enforcement of this Act appears to have kick-started a frenzy worldwide for governments elsewhere and Big Tech to impose mass surveillance and control of information for all internet users.
Related:
- UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world
- The UK’s Online Safety Act is normalising rule-breaking and driving a wedge between the state and the people
- Online Safety Act: The truth behind one of UK’s most authoritarian pieces of legislation yet
- Tommy Robinson and the Free Speech Festival: The establishment wants it stopped or disrupted
To demonstrate how fast the online surveillance net is closing in, we have compiled the following list of articles published in the last two weeks. Unless otherwise indicated, the articles have been published by Reclaim the Net. We have included an introduction to the article under the heading. To read the full article, follow the hyperlink contained in the subheading.
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