The Online Safety Bill: The Penny Is Beginning To Drop - UK Column News

The Online Safety Bill: The Penny Is Beginning To Drop
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-27th-september-2023
- Ofcom (YouTube): Online Safety Bill passed its final stage in parliament
- Parliament Publications: Bill 285 58/2—Online Safety Bill (PDF)
- Carol McGiffin (on X): 
“The Online Safety Bill is no more no less than a volume control that allows the authorities to turn down, all the way to silence, voices they don't want anyone to hear”
- James Melville (on X): 
“Online Safety Bill to become law in crackdown on harmful social media content.
But for government & tech companies to act as arbiters over online content risks becoming a road to hell that is paved with biased censorship intentions.”
- Silkie Carlo (on X): 
“Whose device is your phone anyway?
The message from the encryption debate is, ‘this isn’t *your* device, it’s the government’s device to police what you’re doing online’”
- The Daily Beast: Rumble Loses Advertisers Over Russell Brand Accusations
- MintPress News (on X):
“Rumble to shutdown in the UK?
After the passing of the Online Safety Bill, Rumble is at the risk of shutting down in the UK.”