Chris DieselAug 11, 2025
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

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Aug 11, 2025 at 4:48pmWeb
Show threadadison verliceAug 11, 2025
@eff think there are youtubeers, like shlet, or whatever his name is, and gedion who do much better at protecting children than nthis act does, as they actually catch child preditors on roblox.
in which they actually gave him a seise and dezist letter for. so clearly their gole is *not* to protect children. because if it really was, platforms would fucking moderate their platform for these idiots. they're *protecting* the illegal meterial, just wanting to know who's accessing it.
Show threadSkylar Caulfield Aug 11, 2025
@eff it's never about the children in every single case it's about surveillance and purity. facisim is growing, shoot your local Nazi today!!!
Show threadNazaniAug 11, 2025
@eff Who gets to decide what is harmful content? I invite Brits to look up "Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition" to see how a saner Supreme Court stopped a law that would have banned Romeo & Juiet, Death in Venice, etc.
Show threadHonorAug 13, 2025
@eff people need to quit sites like Reddit that demand Photo ID