07-02-2022 13:22 via telecoms.com

UK government seeks to significantly expand digital thoughtcrime laws

The UK Online Safety bill is seeking to criminalise a whole new raft of online activity and force platforms to censor more.
A press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is paradoxically headlined ‘Online safety law to be strengthened to stamp out illegal content’. Either content is illegal or it isn’t, but the headline implies the law needs to be changed to allow already illegal content to be ‘stamped out’ (whatever that means). It
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