“UK Expands Online Safety Act, Forcing Preemptive Censorship” | I’ve not heard Wikipedia complaining about this, but they will be impacted

The Molly Rose Foundation is obliquely critiquing a US-based suicide-discussion website – one which if you go looking *does* have a page on Wikipedia… so this is going to flush out the Wikipedia censorship question all over again, and it’s going to be right up there with the 4chan/Ofcom arguments over the 1st amendment, free speech, extraterritoriality, VPNs & censorship:


The changes would compel tech companies to block material before users can even see it, under the claim of stopping “cyberflashing” and content “encouraging or assisting serious self-harm.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-online-safety-act-expands-preemptive-censorship-rules

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