Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union
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For years, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted the Online Safety Act would focus solely on illegal content without threatening free expression. But from the moment its age-verification duties took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The centre left government are afraid of losing voters to the far right party, so they’re cutting out the middle man and implementing crazy authoritarian policies first.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Labour won in a landslide after the Brexit mess rightfully fucked up the Tories. They do this because they aren’t center left, but a right/far-right party by their ideology now. They don’t have to do this. They want to do this.

      The “Labour/Social Democratic” parties all over Europe have been sliding into right/far-right authoritarianism and Racism over the past decades, after many of them slided into Neoliberalism at the end of the 90s and in the 2000s.

      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Also worth noting that they only won by a landslide because the Tories lost loads of voters because people were so fed up with them. Labour actually got less votes this election than they did previously when they lost