What’s Been Censored By U.K.'s Online Safety Act?
11 points that paints a very bleak picture of teh U.K.'s future
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The UK’s Online Safety Act mandates that platforms like X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Meta, and others proactively identify and restrict access to content deemed “harmful.”
This includes not just illegal material but vaguely defined “legal but harmful” categories such as misinformation, hate speech, or anything that might cause “psychological harm.”
Platforms face fines up to 10% of their global revenue for non-compliance, incentivizing overzealous moderation.
The result?
Age-gating mechanisms – requiring users to upload IDs or submit to biometric scans – that deter access to everyday political content vital to keeping the electorate informed.
The Foundation for Freedom Online has compiled a list of prominent censorship examples caused by the OSA, from politician’s speeches to historical commentary and 19th-century paintings…
The 11 points covered are…
MP’s speech on grooming gangs
Videos of anti-mass migration protests
Testimony of a grooming gangs survivor
MP’s video warning of the dangers of collapsing birth rates
Satirical account mocking multicultural Britain
War footage from Gaza and Ukraine
A post calling for single-sex public restrooms
A humorous blog post on the decline of the name ‘Keir’
A Historical account of Richard the Lionheart
Saturn Devouring his Son
Criticism of the Online Safety Act
If you want to know who is in control of the narrative, it is the one person or organization of which you cannot criticize…