Tell your MP #Online #Safety Act is a disaster
Rather than protect children, adults are facing widespread #censorship & teens have their freedom of expression restricted
Key problems
- Censorship
- Handing data to #unregulated age providers
- #Restricting #freedom of #expression
- Pushing young people to unregulated spaces
Govt's response: saying they are on side of predators. Totally unacceptable
#Labour treats concerns with #disdain
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isnโt-working
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
A quotation from Ambrose of Milan
To avoid dissensions we should ever be on our guard, more especially with those who drive us to argue with them, with those who vex and irritate us, and who say things likely to excite us to anger. When we find ourselves in company with quarrelsome, eccentric individuals, people who openly and unblushingly say the most shocking things, difficult to put up with, we should take refuge in silence, and the wisest plan is not to reply to people whose behavior is so preposterous.Ambrose of Milan (339-397) Roman theologian, statesman, Christian prelate, saint, Doctor of the Church [Aurelius Ambrosius]
De Officiis Ministrorum [On the Duties of the Clergy], Book 1, ch. 5, sec. 17-18 (AD 386)
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/ambrose-saint/32739/
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Season 8 Episode 15 "To The Max"
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Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, โQui fit, Maecenas,โ l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75284/
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The mood music for walking home from work at 1 am in single digit temperatures