While the UK is still grappling with the Online Safety Act, the US is preparing a much more extensive censorship regime— the Kids Online Safety Act. KOSA would give the anti-LGBTQ Trumpian FTC power to investigate, punish and possibly seize sites that provide "harmful" information to minors.

The Online Safety Act in a nutshell

This + this energy needs to be brought into other things like the UK OSA act

abt the online safety act govt response, this is your sign to call Ofcom to give them formal complaints at 0300 123 3333, and email your MPs. if you need help, www.writetothem.com is great. keep the signatures going too, and don't let down. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #ukpol #OSA

Heads up, the UK govt just said they have ZEROOOO intention of repealing the online safety act. And obv Reform is grifting saying they will. It's all part of the plan. Do not let them win.

The UK Government responded to the petition to Repeal the Online Safety Act 💀

Don't give up hope this problem won't go away tomorrow or even next week it will take time. they will want you to fall into feeling this is the new normal its not. if you do it will only get worse not just for art but the lives of lgbt community their voices are already getting silenced. DONT STOP

Just a reminder: age verification is a *bad* idea, not a good idea with implementation problems. The trouble with it is inherent, not practical.

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.

The UK might end up blocking #Wikipedia due to the Online Safety Act, since they stated that they will not implement any verification rules, citing potential exploitation by bad actors

The UK Online Safety act is trying to ban access to Wikipedia. It ain't about safety.

Make no mistake: the Online Safety Act has well-meaning aims, and combating child exploitation and abuse is necessary and important. However, its wording and resulting impact makes it clear that this law was never really about online safety, but about censorship and control.

I say this as someone with an Oxford law degree: the efficacy of a law is tempered by the logistics of implementing it. It's one of the first things you learn. To that end, the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) fails to achieve its stated objective while creating a host of new issues.

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the way the online safety act repel petition is on its way to 200k signatures basically overnight. nobody liked that

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

- UK Repeal the Online Safety Act petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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