Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal

stephen_g•1 day ago

Ah, the good old "I never thought leopards would eat my face" after voting for the 'leopards eating people's faces party'...

Somehow I have zero hope the bill she is proposing as a replacement could be any better than the absolute horror that the OSA is though...

Defletter•1 day ago

Ditto, but also the so-called "Free Speech Bill" advocated by the publisher which explicitly attempts to import America-style free speech into the country as law. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be something Parliament is entertaining, at least not yet.

streetfighter64•1 day ago

What's wrong with america-style free speech? In my opinion that's one of the few things they got more right than many european countries.

Defletter•1 day ago

Have you not noticed what it's done to their country?

latexr•1 day ago

> What's wrong with america-style free speech?

The biggest issue might be the false belief that it’s superior to others or that the USA is somehow “more free” than other democracies. That’s propaganda, and has precipitated the erosion of freedoms in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

As just one example of the failures of “america-style free speech”: Defending that corporations making large donations to political candidates is free speech. Talk about an incentive to corruption.

dwroberts•1 day ago

For people outside the UK: this person is not really credible. She is an incompetent moron that is desperate for any coverage, especially if it helps get attention for Reform, the party she defected to

(this is not defending the act, just to call her the architect of anything is probably too much)

ChrisRR•1 day ago

On brand with their platform of "Everything the current government does is bad so you should vote for us. We don't have any better solutions, we just know that it's bad"

red-iron-pine•about 18 hours ago

unfortunately that approach works

ablation•1 day ago

Nadine Dorries is one of the least credible, least trustworthy political gadflies you could possibly imagine, only ever truly content when being fed the oxygen of publicity.

bad_username•1 day ago

In the age of toxic empathy, "think about the children" is a very common tool for nefarious uses.

justinclift•1 day ago

Hmmmm:

> By harmonizing to U.S. free speech standards, the UK will make it considerably easier, as a political matter, enter into data sharing and cross-border cooperation agreements, like CLOUD Act agreements, with the United States.

iamnothere•1 day ago

Of note is that the author of this piece is the attorney defending 4chan et al against Ofcom, hence the slant and the general attitude.

stuaxo•1 day ago

I'm not in favour of the online safety act, but the problem is she is incredibly stupid - nobody will listen to her.

kylegordon•1 day ago

"harmonize UK and US law on political speech"

I can't think of anything worse. This is just the extreme right wing pushing the Overton Window even further

bonesss•1 day ago

Step 1: reject and leave the EU to be free of their colonial rulers in Brussels

Step 2: harmonize all laws and regulations with EU anyways without voting influence because Single Market access is lucrative and vital

Step 3: start harmonizing other laws with the US in hopes of courting a new colonial ruler

Step 4: …?

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With love, this feels like a situation where a good friend should simply have taken the car keys away.

JonAtkinson•1 day ago

This is RWNJ garbage dressed up in false "think tank" legitimacy.

dijksterhuis•1 day ago

tl;dr author wants uk to be more like the usa. nadine dorris complaining in an opinion column somewhere is a convenient way for him to pivot to talking about his think tank’s white paper about wanting to make that happen.

Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal

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