U.K.’s Online Censorship Bill Causes Far More Harm Than It Attempts To Prevent
August 10th, 2022Via: Reason:
“If the Online Safety Bill passes, the U.K. government will be able to directly silence user speech, and even imprison those who publish messages that it doesn’t like,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Joe Mullin cautioned last week. “The bill empowers the UK’s Office of Communications (OFCOM) to levy heavy fines or even block access to sites that offend people. We said last year that those powers raise serious concerns about freedom of expression. Since then, the bill has been amended, and it’s gotten worse.”
