Labour respond as 400k back petition for repeal of Online Safety Act

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1. So rather than getting parents, guardians and children to understand the dangers of the Internet, they’ve come up with a blanket censorship plan.

2. Translation: Stop talking about this, you’re making us look like we don’t have a bastard clue.

3. God, it feels good to have the adults back in the room.

   As somebody slightly older, who leans left, I remember discussing Labour on here – the last Labour government and their, uh, “ways”, and how I didn’t trust this one either. Goodness, it was like chucking a match into a petrol station. I think the word is schadenfreude, except of course, all this shit affects me too.

   And yes, I know it was Tory legislation – don’t worry, I hate them too. Maybe even moreso, but I knew exactly what was coming with Labour. They’ve been like this my entire life. I don’t really know why.

4. Labour – Bringing you a Reform government faster than Reform could ever be competent enough to do it themselves

5. 400,000 Jimmy Saville supporters, according to the government

6. Worst is that it doesn’t even work, it just push people to darker corners of the internet.

7. fair play to starmer’s labour.. they’ve managed something no-one thought possible, uniting the left and right in their opinion over something.

8. Tldr is : There will be no debate in parliament but they’re continuing to work with ofcom to make sure the system is effective.

9. This is our version of Prohibition in 1920s USA.

   A completely unworkable piece of legislation that leads to all sorts of unintended (but completely foreseeable) outcomes that ultimately only gets remembered as an example of embarrassing legislation.

10. But I thought the ISP’s already blocked it anyway. I definitely had to agree to receiving adult content on Plusnet. What was wrong with the household being registered as over 18 instead of having to give ID to possibly dodgy websites on the other side of the world.

    Some of the shit on Reddit isn’t suitable for anyone never mind kids but this doesn’t look like the best thought out policy.

11. Meanwhile the actual nonces of this world, the likes of Ten Names Yaxley-Lemon, Andrew Tate, Trump and however many diddler fiddlers inhabit the monarch and house of commons wouldn’t remotely be effected by this block.

    Fuck Starmer, if the Prime Minister wants to know whether I’m an adult or not, he can ask his ma. She’s seen the veg, she knows I’m grown. 👀

12. 400k more Reform voters. This will hit a million before the end of the week as word gets out further.

13. I’d just start a new one each time it’s closed so they get sick of seeing it.

14. Labour is the best advertisement for Reform UK and Reform is paying nothing for it. Even hardline Labour people today are admitting that Peter Kyles remarks branding Farage and anyone oppose to the Online Safety Act as a pedophile who supports Jimmy Saville was idiotic and had given Farage the ability to play himself up as a victim

    Labour should never have implemented this act and they can’t even try to pull the “The Tories forced us to” as they are a majority government with the capability to end anything overnight they wish

    Repealing this act and instead putting something in place which simply expanded the existing framework already there to now legally require internet companies to apply an adult filter on their customers and only remove it if an age verified customer asked for it to be removed would have been enough to appease everyone and would have cost them absolutely zero political capital to do but they allowed this act to go through simply because the summer riots spooked them and they saw a badly worded act which in theory would allow them to censor the internet from content they deemed Far Right in the name of protecting children from inappropriate content

    Labour won’t win the next election as Reform UK whether they will undo the act or not is just going to single voter issue this

15. They have have 100% handed Reform the win in the next election. How are they so utterly clueless?

16. I only knew of this petition due to seeing a Reddit post with a link.

    There is no news of it anywhere else that I’ve seen.

    In fact, going by the news articles over the past week, there has been no serious criticism of the law, no mention of a backlash and no serious debate about our privacy or freedom, let alone about what’s going to get hit next.

    It’s like the news has been sanitised and we’re all happy holding hands around a picture of our lord Keir Starmer.

17. I still remember when internet saftey in school was drilled into our heads that you should NEVER put your face online, let alone many of the other ID requirments they want, otherwise a pedo would come to your house and take your whole family hostage or something. And yet now they expect us to throw all those lessons away for, what? Some American company to harvest my data to use as fuel for their misinformation campaigns? Jog on.

18. Something very ugly is happening. We’re seeing the labor government in Australia push the exact same laws with the backing of Rupert Murdoch. In our case it’s social media that’s the great evil we must protect the children from. Outcome will be the same. More censorship.

    House prices are through the roof here and wealth inequality is as bad as it’s ever been. Some states have or are talking about banning protests without police permission, police already have the power to conduct random searches. We’ve reverted to feudalism and the politicians have decided to deal with it by going with the China option. Ruthlessly suppress dissent, police the internet. People should be terrified. Technology allows this to work in ways it wouldn’t have 50 years ago. Hong Kong is a perfect example of how this will play out.

19. I fucking hate Reform and despise what they stand for. But if they say they will get rid of these checks day one I will begrudgingly vote for them. I just hope another party see sense and says that these checks are BS because I for sure am not supporting labour any longer if they keep this up

20. Let’s see if they still have that view after the next round of elections.

    Essentially, I’m now restricted or have to pay for a VPN to access legal content because parents cannot parent and the government can now decide what they want me to be able to access.

21. This smacks of a bigger problem of a nanny state, and a historic problem of successive governments creating and supporting an environment where people don’t think for themselves and let “the system” raise their children instead of them. Zero responsibility

22. Wow. Colour me suprised. Another parliamentary petition that does fuck and all. Shocking, shocking  i say  (/s incase it wasn’t obvious)

23. There should be a petition to hold government more accountable of petitions.

    If the petitions with most votes won’t do anything, then what’s the point of the petition system?

24. This is exactly the same as banning video games because some games for adults are being played by kids, we all have to suffer because parents can’t be arsed to fucking parent properly.

    This is why I hate politics in this country, there is no real democracy, only the illusion of democracy and every single main party from Labour to the Tories to Reform are all authoritarian and parties like the Lib Dems, which aren’t authoritarian, have absolutely no hope of winning.

25. It’s not enough, we need to protest, we can’t wait 4 years for this

26. Labour doing everything in their power to have Reform winning next GE.

27. Can’t wait until everything is leaked and the government realise they house 40m Norman Reedus’

28. At this point I am more curious of the useful/helpful websites caught up in it. Wikipedia any that help with addiction or domestic violence or such. I feel like some of them might end up caught in the cross fire cutting support

29. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

    I recommend signing and sharing this petition against labour’s proposals for a mandatory ‘BritCard’, which would be a step closer to the surveillance state that they seem so eager to baby step us towards. It won’t end at id for porn, that’s just an early step. A way to get online id verification worked out and implemented by websites and normalised for the population.

30. Whilst I really dislike this legislation on its own merits (or lack thereof), I think I’m actually more horrified by how stupid the people currently in government have revealed themselves to be. How could they think this was a good idea? People *that* stupid are in charge. That’s pretty fucking scary.

    (I’m sorry guys, as I used the f-word, I am going to have to ask anyone who reads this to reply with a photo of their drivers license)

31. You know, I genuinely can’t remember the last time the government did anything to actually make my life better come to think of it. None of them.

32. Peter Kyle has been summoned to a meeting with a Trump official who appears to be very angry about the OSA

    I think it’s fair to say that despite Starmer live on TV lying to Trump that the OSA is just about “preventing children committing suicide” Trump’s lot have now looked into the OSA and now aren’t happy with Starmer

    Maybe Peter will trying calling Trumps representative a pedophile like he did to the 400,000+ people who signed the petition

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