UK moves to grant Ofcom and Parliament sweeping online censorship powers

The Online Safety Bill is finally being introduced to Parliament and it seeks to make Ofcom the arbiter of online speech and activity in the UK.
Since it was first proposed in 2019 the bill has gone through many tweaks and amendments, but a consistent aim from the start was to give communications regulator Ofcom a raft of legal powers to impose its will on the internet. The main mechanism for this is a greatly enhanced ability for it to punish internet platforms that don’t do what they&rsq