#onlinesafetyact — Public Fediverse posts
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Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
CW: UKpol Online Safety Act
Might as well throw my twig on today's typical bonfire of opinions — "Under-16s Social Media Ban"
#OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #UKpol #ethics #legal #SocialMedia
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CW: UKpol Online Safety Act
Might as well throw my twig on today's typical bonfire of opinions — "Under-16s Social Media Ban"
#OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #UKpol #ethics #legal #SocialMedia
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CW: UKpol Online Safety Act
Might as well throw my twig on today's typical bonfire of opinions — "Under-16s Social Media Ban"
#OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #UKpol #ethics #legal #SocialMedia
thomasrigby.com/posts/under-16s-social-media-ban/ -
CW: UKpol Online Safety Act
Might as well throw my twig on today's typical bonfire of opinions — "Under-16s Social Media Ban"
#OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #UKpol #ethics #legal #SocialMedia
thomasrigby.com/posts/under-16s-social-media-ban/ -
CW: UKpol Online Safety Act
Might as well throw my twig on today's typical bonfire of opinions — "Under-16s Social Media Ban"
#OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #UKpol #ethics #legal #SocialMedia
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PornHub ogranicza dostęp do swojej zawartości użytkownikom na terenie Wielkiej Brytanii od 2 lutego 2026
Od 2 lutego 2026 roku PornHub ograniczy w Wielkiej Brytanii dostęp do treści tylko do zalogowanych użytkowników. Aylo krytykuje wymogi weryfikacji wieku; Ofcom z kolei stoi na stanowisku, że ustawa Online Safety Act „spełnia swoje założenia”, ale planuje dalsze rozmowy z przedstawicielami firmy.https://kontrabanda.net/r/pornhub-wielka-brytania-blokada-luty-2026/
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Pornhub to (Mostly) Block the UK Over Ridiculous Age Verification Laws
Pornhub says that UK access to its site will cease as of February 2nd for most users, giving people more incentives to use things like VPNs.
https://www.freezenet.ca/pornhub-to-mostly-block-the-uk-over-ridiculous-age-verification-laws/
#Business #Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Aylo #OnlineSafetyAct #Pornhub #UK #VPN
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Starmer’s online safety act forces tech giant out of UK – ‘making children less safe’ | UK | News
The laws were introduced to protect children online (Image: Getty) Pornhub has announced that it will no longer…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ageverification #Aylo #Internet #Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct #pornhub #Tech(section) #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the American Revolution, let alone colonialism.
What’s Happened Now?
Preston Byrne, lawyer for 4Chan, has published the (apparently full) correspondence between himself and Ofcom from the past few months, the smoking gun of which is the Ofcom Confirmation Decision, where Ofcom notes: (to summarise)
The Act explicitly grants Ofcom the legal authority to regulate online safety for individuals in the United Kingdom, and this expressly includes conducting investigations into, and imposing penalties for, non-compliance by providers of online services with their duties under the Act. […] The Act expressly anticipates that it will have extra-territorial effect, stating at section 204(1) of the Act […] This does not mean that the Act extends to all use of in-scope services globally. […] “The duties extend only to the design, operation and use of the service in the UK and, for duties expressed to apply in relation to ‘users’, as it affects the UK users of the service”
My lived experience of Ofcom people makes me believe that this is a reflection of what they actually think they can and should be doing — I would love to be generous and suggest that this boilerplate reflects them politely throwing parliament under a bus for passing such a prima-facie dreadfully drafted and over-reaching law as the Online Safety Act… but I’m not convinced that Ofcom don’t actually believe some form of “we can do this! we are the little regulator who can bring law to the internet!” — hoping that smooth patter and soft power will provide them with outsize leverage.
Oh, and… having declared British jurisdictional powers to enforce against an American company in America thereby flouting American law, they then demand that American law protects them from counter-lawsuits, not to mention also claiming that 4Chan does not have jurisdiction over Ofcom:
What happens next?
Alas, global politics are a very big pond, and Ofcom (and Britain in general) is a much smaller fish than it likes to imagine.
As I have written previously, this will not end well: I cannot imagine the US judiciary nor administration supporting so flagrant a flouting of US sovereignty, although Britain will be spinning hard to minimise the noise in the media.
However: when eventually / having been proven not to be able to enforce against 4Chan and the Global Internet, the minds behind the Online Safety Act will start to press for a Great Firewall of Britain to protect our children from these profane and insufficiently regulated websites — which is curious if you think about it for a moment.
It’s not as if 4Chan is stealing across our borders in the dead of night to infect delicate British childrens’ minds with shitposting, porn and badly-drawn cartoons of frogs. From my perspective more damage has been wrought to British culture by the Disneyification of Winnie-the-Pooh (big fan of EH Shephard here) than by 4Chan.
And of course once/if the Great British Firewall (“White Cliffs of Cyber?”) is built, then we’ll be rediscovering that:
- The kids already know how to use VPNs to circumvent firewalls
- The Streisand Effect dictates that more kids will have gone to look at 4Chan because the Government is trying to stop them
- The impotent child-protection (and national security) interests will be demanding even more loudly that digital identity be required to even look at the pot of filth that is the internet
- Investing in regulation rather than education will have made everything much, much worse
The way we protect British kids from the Internet is to make better and more capable Britons, rather than to try and kidproof the entire internet.
The least bad thing that Ofcom and the Government could do is to quietly let the matter drop whilst focusing on education.
Links to Other Coverage
- https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-ofcom-claims-first-amendment-cant-shield-americans
- https://www.public.news/p/starmer-breaks-promise-to-trump-in (partial paywall)
Links to Original Source Material
- First-Notice-2-1.pdf
- 4chan-community-support-LLC-non-responder-1.pdf
- Second-Notice-2-1.pdf
- Provisional-Decision-1.pdf
- Preston-Byrne-Mail-Confirmation-Decision_-Investigation-into-4chan-Community-Support-LLCs-failure-to-comply-with-two-statutory-information-requests-A-2.pdf
- 4chan-Cover-Letter-1.pdf
- 4chan-Confirmation-Decision-1-1.pdf
- Preston-Byrne-Mail-Confirmation-Decision_-Investigation-into-4chan-Community-Support-LLCs-failure-to-comply-with-two-statutory-information-requests-B-2.pdf
- Preston-Byrne-Mail-Fwd_-Provisional-Decision_-Investigation-into-4chan-Community-Support-LLCs-failure-to-comply-with-two-statutory-information-requests-1.pdf
#4chan #censorship #ofcom #ofcomFiles #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #PrestonByrne #surveillance
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Are #Mastodon / #FediVerse going to ban everything erotic and sexual (as westerners love to call NSFW) ... They gonna follow the bigoted UK laws and go full taliban :ms_exclamation_question: I hope not because it would be such a shame. Especially for the people who knows that this so called Online Safety Act has NOTHING to do with kinds in the first place. Never did, never will.
That Epstein list must be really long though.
#FediVerse #UK #OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship #Epstein
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Are #Mastodon / #FediVerse going to ban everything erotic and sexual (as westerners love to call NSFW) ... They gonna follow the bigoted UK laws and go full taliban :ms_exclamation_question: I hope not because it would be such a shame. Especially for the people who knows that this so called Online Safety Act has NOTHING to do with kinds in the first place. Never did, never will.
That Epstein list must be really long though.
#FediVerse #UK #OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship #Epstein
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Are #Mastodon / #FediVerse going to ban everything erotic and sexual (as westerners love to call NSFW) ... They gonna follow the bigoted UK laws and go full taliban :ms_exclamation_question: I hope not because it would be such a shame. Especially for the people who knows that this so called Online Safety Act has NOTHING to do with kinds in the first place. Never did, never will.
That Epstein list must be really long though.
#FediVerse #UK #OnlineSafetyBill #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship #Epstein
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Recall that #Kremlin #Russia began to ban online resources for "propaganda of suicide", and in particular for "descriptions of acts of self-harm or suicide" back in 2013: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.
The noun "#Roskomnadzor", the name of the agency responsible for censorship, soon became a verb: "to commit [ROSKOMNADZOR]" was RuNet's new "convert to Islam".
Nine years before the full-scale war.
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Video: Dr Kate Lister: “Who is gathering and storing your data for the new Online Safety Act?”
Answer: it’s the porn companies who were lobbying for it in the first place.
https://www.tiktok.com/@k8_lister/video/7534366551022013719
#ageVerification #aylo #censorship #kateLister #mindgeek #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance
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YOU DID NOTHING TO STOP THIS. NOW YOU HAVE TO DOX YOURSELF TO LOOK AT A FUCKING BLOG AND CHILDREN ARE GOING ON THE DARK FUCKING WEB TO LOOK AT PORN.
https://odysee.com/@El-Has-The-Problem:0/Blog-004-OnlineSafetyAct:5
#Britain #Censorship #OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafetyBill #UKGovernment #Govt #DataSecurity #Privacy #DeathOfPrivacy #DeathToTheRNG
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My #LinkedIn is awash with people commenting about their dilemma of using #elonmusk's #hellsite, as if, AS IF they'd only just woken up to his #fascist agenda? I mean, what about the 2 MILLION OF US who migrated here in 2022 very much because WE KNEW? Anyone remembers the hashtag #twitterrefugees?
I suspect it is the threat of legal action with the #OnlineSafetyAct that finally got them to move their heads out of their arses. If only they wouldn't sing the praises of #Threads & #Bluesky...🤔