Australia has introduced an under-16 social media ban, and now the UK is considering following suit.
The question is whether this actually protects children, or whether it opens the door to mandatory age checks, digital ID, and wider surveillance for everyone.
Restrictions aimed at kids rarely stop there.
Do you support a UK social media ban for under-16s?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3UseJXpjWlo
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Stop Palantir in the NHS.
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/
'Is your local NHS Trust using Palantir’s software?'
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The Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.
Because it does nothing to tackle the underlying dominance of Big Tech – the very foundations of online harms.
We fight for interoperability where competition and user choice drives change.
Join the movement with ORG ⬇️
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ORG warned the UK Parliament that VPNs must not face the chop.
Banning or age-gating VPNs will shatter security and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable by playing into the hands predators online.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-briefing-warns-against-restricting-vpns/
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The UK Online Safety Act does nothing to challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Government needs to use competition powers so we can choose moderation engines and switch social media provider without losing our networks.
Read our interoperability report ⬇️
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With vague definitions and hefty penalties, the UK Online Safety Act encourages the over-moderation of content.
ORG joined with civil society groups to warn Parliament that things need to change if we're to protect freedom of expression online.
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Small sites have been hit with onerous duties under the UK Online Safety Act. Many have shut down or geo-blocked the UK.
ORG published a guide through the regulatory maze of duties placed on online service providers by the Act and Ofcom.
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People have been forced to hand over personal data to unregulated age-verification companies to access content and app features way beyond porn.
The UK Online Safety Act put in place no regulatory standards for privacy or security.
We called for regulation ⬇️
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The UK Online Safety Act is badly designed.
ORG published a report setting out a rights-based approach to fix it.
One that limits the scope of the Act to minimise threats to free expression, our privacy rights and small sites.
Read more ⬇️
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It wouldn't have been 2025 without the UK Online Safety Act hitting the fan 🫥
Whether it's fighting for age verification providers to be regulated or for a rights-based approach to fix the Act, ORG has followed every twist and turn.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-state-censorship-of-online-speech/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
Michael J Burgess
moongold
Open Rights Group