The Tyranny of Ofcom
Spiked's Andrew Tettenborn raises concerns about Ofcom's overreach in regulating media content, and why powers given to it by the Online Safety Bill should worry us all.
Spiked's Andrew Tettenborn raises concerns about Ofcom's overreach in regulating media content, and why powers given to it by the Online Safety Bill should worry us all.
A climate consultant has called for purveyors of ‘climate disinformation’ to be sent to prison. But what infallible authority could the courts rely on to determine whether a climate-related claim is true or false?
Privacy – one of the most basic rights in any free society – is under threat from the Online Safety Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The central issue is the undermining of encryption.
WhatsApp has threatened to leave the U.K. market over fears that the Online Safety Bill will kill end-to-end encryption and open the door to "routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages".
The Guardian has found a way to compare Andrew Bridgen to Andrew Tate (other than their first names), and somehow uses it all to justify beefing up the Online Safety Bill.
Michelle Donelan, the Digital Secretary, has unveiled a new version of the Online Safety Bill today. How much better will free speech be protected in the ‘Donelan compromise’? Let’s take a deep dive.
It’s great news that the Government has promised to remove the clause in the Online Safety Bill dealing with content that’s ‘legal but harmful’ to adults. But that’s far from the only risk the Bill poses to free speech.
According to several newspaper reports, the Government is planning to scrap the clause in the Online Safety Bill designed to protect adults from ‘legal but harmful’ content – a huge victory for free speech campaigners.
The problem with the Online Safety Bill is that it doesn’t just aim to protect children but grown-ups as well. Adults should be able to judge for themselves just how dangerous it is to watch videos by Russell Brand.
The Online Safety Bill, with its requirement to censor 'legal but harmful' content, would only reinforce the growing tendency of news and social media to repeat Government-approved propaganda.
