Make no mistake: the Online Safety Act has well-meaning aims, and combating child exploitation and abuse is necessary and important. However, its wording and resulting impact makes it clear that this law was never really about online safety, but about censorship and control.
July 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Make no mistake: the Online Safety Act has well-meaning aims, and combating child exploitation and abuse is necessary and important. However, its wording and resulting impact makes it clear that this law was never really about online safety, but about censorship and control.
I say this as someone with an Oxford law degree: the efficacy of a law is tempered by the logistics of implementing it. It's one of the first things you learn. To that end, the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) fails to achieve its stated objective while creating a host of new issues.
July 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I say this as someone with an Oxford law degree: the efficacy of a law is tempered by the logistics of implementing it. It's one of the first things you learn. To that end, the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) fails to achieve its stated objective while creating a host of new issues.