If you use Wikipedia for your info, I can see why they would wanna censor your dumb asses. Wikipedia is 80% garbage. I’ve stopped counting the amount of disinfo on that damn thing and won’t allow my children to use it for anything.
But what can we do?
They’re even coming for the gamers now. Xbox users (thank fuck I’m PC/PS) are having major issues with voice chat and some games.
Mass censorship here we go
Lies. I can still access Wikipedia.
London’s burning was actually an outstanding show…
Don’t forget non-mainstream media.
and just like that *poof* the UK internet traffic disappeared
Albania suddenly saw a massive increase in network traffic
You only just realised this? You guys do realise this was never about porn but about controlling us right?
It has been ever thus.
But far more pronounced, knee jerk, reactive and frankly poorly thought out, ultimately unworkable legislation over the past 40yrs. Successive governments utterly unable to grasp the nature of change, technology. Essentially 19th & 20th century political parties, using 20th century politics and policies to tackle 21st century problems.
Designed to appeal to the right wing press and their readers. Think “won’t someone think of the children” and “ban this sick filth now!” A pearl clutching, moral panic inducing “tough on law and order” with just enough thought into it to get past the latest news cycle. Or pandering to the vested interests of the multi millionaire and billionaire class who own the lobbying consultants l, who in turn own the politicians via large donations.
The OSA, like legislation banning torrent indexers is easily bypassed. Given the government has access to GCHQ, NCSC and private industry for advice, this reeks of “bricks and mortar” politicians refusing to understand a digital world.
Ban all pencil sharpeners they make pencils sharp.
And they wonder why reform are gaining
We never asked for this. It is not about child safety. To argue otherwise is disingenuous. This is not what we want from our government.
Can we please please censor love island instead
More like British realising that freedom of sp33ch never existed.
They were glad as long as it did nit hurt them, but now that is their turn, the act like the world is ending.
Sex education lessons in shambles
Lazy legislation created by blªtant idiots
It’s confounding to me that the bill should be used to restrict access to information on sources such as Wikipedia, Spotify, streaming platforms, computer games and BBC news. I would argue that in doing this, we are censoring content that should be freely available for the public interest, especially since 16-18 years olds are now of voting age. This will only serve to undermine the public interest to free speech and information, and democracy as a whole since it is stifling political discourse and freedom of information. People should not need to be identified or tracked to access, or share information or views. It should be the responsibility of the private entities that publish this information to moderate.
They’re banning news and media outlets that have a differing opinion to the UK government. It’s the epitome of dumb and horrifying
And an Israeli company will do the verification
Labour censorship comrades! Needs to be reversed asap.
Wait until they censor political opinions that oppose the government. They’ll probably label them as things like “hate speech” or “terrorism”… oh wait…
funny thing is it doesnt even block porn it just blocks the main porn sites but go to page 2 on google search and nothing is blocked
Which dystopian movie are we going to find ourselves in? Hunger games? 1984? Children of Men?
Soooo Labour is ensuring Reform is going to win the next election?
such an incredibly stupid law
it’s goin gto do practically nothing good and so much harm
It would have been fine if they stopped with pornographic content and other such stuff that kids *really* shouldn’t be looking at, but they took it too far when they started censoring suicide hotlines, music, gaming (yes, Xbox is doing it as of 2026), Wikipedia and literally anything they don’t like.
Oh for God sake.
Wikipedia hasn’t been banned.
IF OFCOM decide to give it category 1 then editors will have to be verified yes, but it hasn’t been categorised as such, if it is then sure that is bad, but at the moment it’s a non issue.
The recent court case said the same, OFCOM need to make sure Wikipedia isn’t impacted
Yet again, a private entity has managed to get their wanted laws imposed on us all.
Nothing to do with child safety. This is step 1 of censorship
Tried to buy a cutlery set online and got asked to take a picture of myself…. I’d rather eat with my bare hands.
What gets me is people not willing to throw up a selfie in a country where there’s more cctv cameras’ than people! I hate to tell you, but they already know what you look like!
And pizza hut
And NSFW Reddit accounts.
What seems to be the issue here? I’m kinda confused how is this different to having to supply id to say buy alcohol
Or fly on a plane? Etc
The second the 2000s generation will start getting in to gov. postion on large, all of this will start hopefully getting reversed.
Goverments are everywhere full of old people who try solve problems with they dont understand and for so the next generation of politicans will need to be fixing what they fucked up during their time, and this will repeat again and again..
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If you use Wikipedia for your info, I can see why they would wanna censor your dumb asses. Wikipedia is 80% garbage. I’ve stopped counting the amount of disinfo on that damn thing and won’t allow my children to use it for anything.
But what can we do?
They’re even coming for the gamers now. Xbox users (thank fuck I’m PC/PS) are having major issues with voice chat and some games.
Mass censorship here we go
Lies. I can still access Wikipedia.
London’s burning was actually an outstanding show…
Don’t forget non-mainstream media.
and just like that *poof* the UK internet traffic disappeared
Albania suddenly saw a massive increase in network traffic
You only just realised this? You guys do realise this was never about porn but about controlling us right?
It has been ever thus.
But far more pronounced, knee jerk, reactive and frankly poorly thought out, ultimately unworkable legislation over the past 40yrs. Successive governments utterly unable to grasp the nature of change, technology. Essentially 19th & 20th century political parties, using 20th century politics and policies to tackle 21st century problems.
Designed to appeal to the right wing press and their readers. Think “won’t someone think of the children” and “ban this sick filth now!” A pearl clutching, moral panic inducing “tough on law and order” with just enough thought into it to get past the latest news cycle. Or pandering to the vested interests of the multi millionaire and billionaire class who own the lobbying consultants l, who in turn own the politicians via large donations.
The OSA, like legislation banning torrent indexers is easily bypassed. Given the government has access to GCHQ, NCSC and private industry for advice, this reeks of “bricks and mortar” politicians refusing to understand a digital world.
Ban all pencil sharpeners they make pencils sharp.
And they wonder why reform are gaining
We never asked for this. It is not about child safety. To argue otherwise is disingenuous. This is not what we want from our government.
Can we please please censor love island instead
More like British realising that freedom of sp33ch never existed.
They were glad as long as it did nit hurt them, but now that is their turn, the act like the world is ending.
Sex education lessons in shambles
Lazy legislation created by blªtant idiots
It’s confounding to me that the bill should be used to restrict access to information on sources such as Wikipedia, Spotify, streaming platforms, computer games and BBC news. I would argue that in doing this, we are censoring content that should be freely available for the public interest, especially since 16-18 years olds are now of voting age. This will only serve to undermine the public interest to free speech and information, and democracy as a whole since it is stifling political discourse and freedom of information. People should not need to be identified or tracked to access, or share information or views. It should be the responsibility of the private entities that publish this information to moderate.
They’re banning news and media outlets that have a differing opinion to the UK government. It’s the epitome of dumb and horrifying
And an Israeli company will do the verification
Labour censorship comrades! Needs to be reversed asap.
Wait until they censor political opinions that oppose the government. They’ll probably label them as things like “hate speech” or “terrorism”… oh wait…
funny thing is it doesnt even block porn it just blocks the main porn sites but go to page 2 on google search and nothing is blocked
Which dystopian movie are we going to find ourselves in? Hunger games? 1984? Children of Men?
Soooo Labour is ensuring Reform is going to win the next election?
such an incredibly stupid law
it’s goin gto do practically nothing good and so much harm
It would have been fine if they stopped with pornographic content and other such stuff that kids *really* shouldn’t be looking at, but they took it too far when they started censoring suicide hotlines, music, gaming (yes, Xbox is doing it as of 2026), Wikipedia and literally anything they don’t like.
Oh for God sake.
Wikipedia hasn’t been banned.
IF OFCOM decide to give it category 1 then editors will have to be verified yes, but it hasn’t been categorised as such, if it is then sure that is bad, but at the moment it’s a non issue.
The recent court case said the same, OFCOM need to make sure Wikipedia isn’t impacted
Yet again, a private entity has managed to get their wanted laws imposed on us all.
Carnegie UK
https://carnegieuk.org/online-harms-resource-page/
Ali McForever explains here:
https://youtu.be/lJ2AokZujC0?si=Ka_q7LYFuxUHpJYu
Nothing to do with child safety. This is step 1 of censorship
Tried to buy a cutlery set online and got asked to take a picture of myself…. I’d rather eat with my bare hands.
What gets me is people not willing to throw up a selfie in a country where there’s more cctv cameras’ than people! I hate to tell you, but they already know what you look like!
And pizza hut
And NSFW Reddit accounts.
What seems to be the issue here? I’m kinda confused how is this different to having to supply id to say buy alcohol
Or fly on a plane? Etc
The second the 2000s generation will start getting in to gov. postion on large, all of this will start hopefully getting reversed.
Goverments are everywhere full of old people who try solve problems with they dont understand and for so the next generation of politicans will need to be fixing what they fucked up during their time, and this will repeat again and again..
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