Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union

Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force



by anoncuteuser

23 comments

  1. and there it is, the real reason for the OSA, the prevention of wrongthink

    Cant have the plebs thinking outside the status quo

  3. One must wonder if Keir Starmer secretly wants Nigel Farage to become PM…

  5. 16 year olds will be allowed to vote, but won’t be able to learn what is happening in their own country?

  6. I’m deeply worried for the future of this country. Things are only going to go downhill and I don’t want to see the bottom. I’m still young so it feels like the life I was promised is being taken away

  7. I’d be surprised if Labour didn’t lose the government or at least most of their majority at the next election if this kind of decision making continues.

  8. Why aren’t people in the uk protesting this more strongly, this is extremely authoritarian

  9. So it’s more of an Elon sacked all the staff so all we can do is block stuff rather than review issue really

  10. I wonder how long before we’re not allowed to mention Guy Fawkes…

  11. The word blocked has been abused badly this week

    You can freely access it. If you’re over 18

  12. This blocks 16 years old from seeing news footage from warzones. So now we’re in the place where they can vote for a party that wants to go to war but not view the consequences of that.

    Messy.

  13. Looks like UK government censorship has sprung into action.

  14. Who are “freespeechunion”?

    Unfortunately, “free speech” has turned into a kind of far right buzzword, which makes me suspicious of this site’s honesty.

    Edit: ha ha, a bit of research showed I was right to be suspicious. It’s run by a bunch of right-wing “journalists” like Toby Young, Douglas Murray and Julia Hartley-Brewer, who founded the organisation to protect their right to spread COVID misinformation during the pandemic. That’s the kind of “free speech” they want to protect. The right to lie.

  15. The OSA isn’t about protecting children, it’s about Starmer granting himself the powers to try to ensure that his party gets its 10+ years of rule and we are seeing the start of this. Currently it’s videos and content he doesn’t like being censored but as we get closer to the next election rest assured we will see Starmer putting out the line that online content promoting opposition viewpoints are “Inappropriate for children” because in writing this act does in fact grant the government the power to effectively ban political opposition parties at least from operating online

  17. Dammit Kier, this was not the move. You were teetering on the edge for so long. This just handed the next election away.

  18. I would just say that (regardless of my personal views) this is a subject where Reddit and Reform are very much off the mark from public opinion and (for better or worse) Labour have popular support

  19. Remember it’s for their safety. Sure we are also making the argument that 16 year olds are mature and rational enough to vote, but god forbid they have access to the necessary information that could inform them. That’s dangerous.

    Honestly, I think even Orwell would scoff if someone floated this idea to him.

  20. Does anyone remember the ISIS documents that were released, years ago? Outlining their invasion plans, at least 3 things that were on there have happened. It was around 2012-2015

  21. We told you when they were clamping down on “disruptive” protests (which protests are meant to be) and everyone was whining about just stop oil hurting those poor men in vans on £70k a year. Saying their protests was annoying and they should tone it down.
    We told you this was where it was going. 
    Funny how everyone on this sub has switched up on free speech now.

  22. Don’t get me wrong, the OSA is absolute dogshit and needs to be repealed, but this seems more like lazy implementation by X rather than the new law working as intended. Reddit has also brought in ID checks on all subs marked as NSFW, regardless of whether their content is actually pornographic or just graphic news footage, for example.

  23. I have 0 love or sympathy for these protesters. Protest the MPs and lords getting their pals filthy rich because the asylum process has been gutted and asylum seekers have been turned into political football. Protesting people who have no control over the system that they are forced into rather than the people responsible for that system is stupid at best and malicious at worst.

    But even if I disagree with these protestors this is insane govt overreach, and just gives the far right more ammunition. You should be able to protest as long as your not causing harm or severe distress. Whether its proscribing PA or scrubbing footage from the internet neither is healthy for our rapidly declinging democracy.

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