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

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    1. StresWeeting on

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

      Cant have the plebs thinking outside the status quo

    5. SamPlinth on

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

    6. Barley56 on

      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. Trundlenator on

      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. trini420- on

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

    9. DarkAngelAz on

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

    11. Wipedout89 on

      The word blocked has been abused badly this week

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

    12. ThatchersDirtyTaint on

      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.

    14. 99thLuftballon on

      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. Hellstorm901 on

      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. CAPIreland on

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

    18. SomethingFishyDishy on

      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. Chillmm8 on

      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 is someone floated this idea to him.

    20. ShadowLickerrr on

      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. heppyheppykat on

      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. I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS on

      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.