The UK has passed its on-line censorship bill, the Online Safety Bill, which is set to rival the EU censorship legislation for the attack upon free speech. While the Bill looked like it would help in dealing with the protection of young internet users, it undertakes a massive over-stretch, forcing platforms to also restrict “misinformation,” which is broadly defined, and easily could include harmful content, but also legitimated political content, which will naturally be conservative thought. And, worse of all, privacy on-line seems to be gone, with user content and messages being scanned to seek out problematic content. Welcome to the police state.
The new Act will certainly be used as a weapon of political oppression, and this the way of the UK, today.
