‘We’ll fight together’: Americans planning to sue Ofcom over the Online Safety Act

Oh good, foreigners interfering in our politics. Definitely have our best interests at heart.

Ofcom might be one of the worst institutions I’ve ever known, pathetic puritan pricks.

Whether I agree or not, I’m wondering how far they think they’re going to get in a UK court about this? Surely they’re just going to be told if they don’t want to obey UK laws, don’t offer their product in the UK? 

I’m not sure how he’s planning on fighting this to be honest.

His argument will be that Americans should be able to run their companies as they want that OFCOM will counter with “we agree, but if you want your services to be available in the UK then you need to adhere to our laws. If you don’t want to do that, we’ll stop your services being offered”.

Could be an interesting fight, if Starmer fights against these companies, which he will, and orders punishments on them as he usually responds to dissident then he’ll get a call from Trumps government reminding him what will happen if he tries to screw with American trade

If, or should I say when, Starmer then backs down and allows American companies to operate in the UK without complying with the OSA other companies can exploit this loophole and we can call out the blatant hypocrisy of Starmer creating a Two Kier system

People are surprised, but even with all the bad stuff going on in America, nothing was censored. You’re still allowed to see protests footage, South Park episode on Trump, ICE agents on their arrests, can still post “woke” stuff all over, can criticize the abortion ban, can post wrong stuff and be corrected, can debate, have nuance, etc. So, I can see why America, mostly big corpos, aren’t fine with stuff like this. It makes the internet unusable, all blame is put on them and actually, the last shred of privacy is broken. People online expose and harass lots of pedos and criminals in general because they’re easy to track without any ID. Look at the Luca Magnotta and Kero the wolf cases, people were doing detective jobs for free. EDP445 isn’t left by people to exist online to gain audience and money. People found the flag in a room in Spain even. If only the police worked as hard and took complaints seriously.

In my country, a guy mostly exposing online scams but not only and a victim female singer were talking a few years ago about a forum made for revenge porn, posting spy pics of their female family members, deepfakes of female celebrities and their teen daughters, all sorts of illegal porn. Yet nothing was done, even though they could be easily found (especially those who posted family members or random women on the street). It’s not like they were good at hiding their identities. It took women being mad over a rise in femicides this year to have the forum brought back into the conversation and have the creator investigated. And even in the kidnapping of 2 teen girls some 5-6 years ago, the people at the emergency call center were awful to the one who managed to call them and unprofessional, police was incompetent as well. A life which could’ve been saved was lost. No one cares about children and women, if they did, they’d actually work on real world cases. I honestly was surprised an ordinary woman won a case in court over revenge porn blackmail recently, it was like winning the lottery. Some pedo raping 13 y/o girl got a slap on the wrist in the past, and that judge was female and managed to fail upward into a better position.

Regardless of how successful this will be, how much taxpayer money will be spent defending this in court? All to prevent kids from listening to Spotify or accessing addiction resources online.

It’s a mumsy act, powered by bereaved parents, and that’s always dangerous. I don’t blame ofCom, they are acting under orders.

I never thought I’d find myself supporting the nation that elected Donald Trump twice and has a nasty habit of dragging us into almost every war they’ve gotten themselves involved in, but here we are.

That said, it does ring a bit hollow when the Americans have already introduced their own Online Safety Bill and, judging by how the Trump regime talks about people that it doesn’t like, it’ll make the UK one look positively liberal by comparison.

Have to laugh at that stupid tory leader shit talking the OSA and acting like it wasn’t her party who brought it in 😂

Under what pretense exactly? Your website being available in the UK means it has to obey UK laws. That’s nothing new. GDPR is applicable for EU citizens regardless of where the website is hosted, and websites available in Germany have always had to cater for their strict laws around nazi imagry, and this is no different.

You can disagree with the law or agree with the law but think the implementation is stupid, and still think Americans thinking its all about them is utterly bonkers.

This act of parliament really does need the likes of the big tech companies, and their money mountains, to take it for a judicial review because of the imprecise implementation and the fallout from that.

If Labour were more politically savvy, which they’ve been proven to be abysmal at thus far, they’d kick the can down the road if they don’t have the balls to implement it properly and fairly.

At the moment, even though it was a Tory bill, Labour are going to take the political hit and it’s particularly ironic considering they’re letting 16 & 17 year olds vote at the next election. Kids won’t like them fucking with their internet.

This really is an issue that united both left and right. Wow.

Kemi Badenoch against a policy that her own bloody party started. For crying out loud!

good luck we really need this cause with all parties in UK basically for is we a screwed every which way. problem is with the global roll outs of goolge and microsoft age verification stuff it feels like on a certain level its all planned and all going out no matter what happens