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The UK Online Safety Act ransoms your privacy for free speech 
By age gating vaguely defined ‘harmful’ content, UK users face censorship.
It coerces people into coughing up their ID to unregulated age verification providers or scammers.
Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
UK users are cut adrift from current events by the Online Safety Act.
Platforms must moderate content that’s ‘harmful’.
A term that bursts the banks of porn to submerge news, advice and debate… it’s online censorship.
Tell your MP to FIX it
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
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Algorithms will hyperactively dredge feeds of what's 'illegal' and 'harmful'.
Both terms are wishy washy in the UK Online Safety Act.
So platforms will over-moderate rather than get hit with penalties for a finger in the air judgement. Censorship is baked into the equation, and that's why the OSA threatens free expression.
Tell your MP to FIX IT
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
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The UK Online Safety Act requires platforms to assess and moderate 'illegal' content.
This mixed with the UK’s vague definition of terrorism could lead to content being wrongly flagged and removed.
This includes supportive posts about Palestine or protests and debate about the Palestine Action ban.
Read our open letter
Open Rights GroupOpen Letter: Implementation of Palestine Action Proscription on Social MediaDear Ofcom, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance,
Implementation of Palestine Action proscription on social media
We are writing with serious concerns about how Ofcom and social media platforms will interpret the Government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Censorship of content relating to Palestine is a result of the UK government banning Palestine Action and duties placed on platforms by the UK Online Safety Act to moderate 'illegal' content.
Signatories to our open letter call on Ofcom to proactively defend the right to free expression.
Hear more from ORG's Prorgamme Manager, Sara Chitseko
Palestine Action ban + UK Online Safety Act = widespread censorship of content about Palestine 
Lawful posts could be swept up by overly broad definitions of terrorism and wrongly removed by platforms. It's a serious attack on freedom of expression and the right to protest in the UK.
Read our open letter from human rights groups and experts
Open Rights GroupHuman rights defenders raise concerns that Online Safety Act will lead to censorship of Palestine protestHuman rights organisations, academics and experts have written to Ofcom and the tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, asking for clarification over how they will protect the right to freedom of expression online in light of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
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“Crucial public debate about Gaza is being threatened by vague, overly broad laws that could lead to content about Palestine being removed or hidden online. How these laws are applied should concern everyone regardless of their political views.”
Ofcom must uphold free expression, so people can engage online without fear of being micharacterised as terrorists.
Sara Chitseko for ORG.
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“The heavy-handed takedown of digital content, fuelled by overly-broad terrorism definitions, will inevitably suppress critical voices, journalism and social movements around the world.
It is very likely that in trying to comply with these requirements, platforms would unjustly remove content from people in the EU and other regions."
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Platforms have a duty to mitigate the risk of 'illegal' content under the UK Online Safety Act.
Faced with unclear definitions, they'll over-moderate content about protest and Palestine solidarity.
Ofcom even advises them they can bypass duties by censoring more than is required!
Fortgeführter Thread
What's 'illegal' is open to interpretation.
UK terror laws criminalise people for taking part in a proscribed group AND for expressing 'support' which is 'reckless' in getting others to support it.
This risks encouraging automated moderation that disproportionately affects political speech, particularly from marginalised communities, including Palestinian voices.
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Age verification has overextended itself 
UK users are coerced into giving sensitive data to many unregulated providers under the threat of wide-ranging censorship.
It’s an open goal for cybercriminals 
Tell your MP (UK) the Online Safety Act isn’t working
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
The Guardian · Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’
Fortgeführter Thread
Teens are left in the dark when it comes to getting support or news online.
Adults have to stay in the soft play area unless they scatter their ID or biometrics across the Internet.
The UK Online Safety Act is a shoddy, dangerous law.
Tell your MP it’s gotta change
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
Blink and you’ll have never seen it in the first place 
Age verification rules in the UK Online Safety Act are snapping parts of the Internet out of existence.
But it’s not what you think (porn)!
News on conflicts: GONE. Support for sexual health and smoking: GONE.
Watch as ORG’s @JamesBaker shows how censorship works
The landscape for free expression has become a dark one.
Laws are being enacted around the globe to violate individuals right to privacy and the right to consume legal content. Payment processors are forcing the hands of platforms unless they take down certain content. And groups like Collective Shout continue to pressure them to do even more of this overbearing censorship. It's starting to leak into other genres too, like Horror. Often disguised as a way to "protect children", but actually just being a way to moderate speech and oppress people.
This situation has only gotten worse as these companies have gotten more blatant. If you're an artist/creative, your main source of income could be taken away without warning. As a consumer the things you love will become less and less prominent. This is just the beginning. Now is the time to start considering Cryptocurrency, take a stand to protect the content that you love while you still can. The option might not be there in the future.
I made an article on how to get started with crypto here: https://crippled.media/article/why-you-should-use-monero-to-pay-and-get-paid-for-controversial-content-and-how-to-do-it.-aka-a-cripples-guide-to-monero
And I'm currently in the progress of making an interactive tutorial site to turn those tutorials into a more digestible format as well as add further resources and tutorials. I hope to release that in a week or so.
#freespeech #freeexpression #artists #dystopian #privacy #politics #authoritarian #dystopian #dystopia #xmr #monero #r18 #nsfw #crypto
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