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The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption

The UK government plans to pass a new bill on Internet access which would give advanced power over it’s citizens, opening the possibility for censorship and prosecution. Also attempting to undermine the use of strong encryption to give the government easy access to all user content for inspection. The bill in it’s current form imposes […]
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The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption – archived source

The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption BY JOE MULLIN – AUGUST 5, 2022 The UK government has had more than a year to revise its Online Safety Bill into a proposal that wouldn’t harm users’ basic rights. It has failed to do so, and the bill should be scrapped. The current bill is a threat to […]
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