{"id":313239,"date":"2025-08-03T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313239\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:44:12","slug":"musks-x-slams-britains-new-online-safety-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313239\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s X slams Britain&#8217;s new online safety law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123069182.jpg\" alt=\"Musk's X slams Britain's new online safety law\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The UK govt on Saturday defended a new online safety law following harsh criticism from social network X, saying it was &#8220;demonstrably false&#8221; that it &#8220;compromises free speech&#8221;.Under the law, which took effect on July 25, online platforms must take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content such as pornography.But X said Friday that &#8220;the act&#8217;s laudable intentions are at risk of being overshadowed by the breadth of its regulatory reach.&#8221;Without a more balanced, collaborative approach, free speech will suffer,&#8221; added the platform, formerly known as Twitter, saying regulators had taken a &#8220;heavy-handed approach&#8221;.The govt countered that &#8220;as well as legal duties to keep children safe, the very same law places clear and unequivocal duties on platforms to protect freedom of expression&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK govt on Saturday defended a new online safety law following harsh criticism from social network X,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,43339,4884,114226,114225,1144,114224,712,16,10788,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-313239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-free-speech","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-harmful-content-regulation","15":"tag-musks-x","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-online-safety-law","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-uk-government","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114962069297704121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}