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by Doctor_Fegg 321 days ago
The Online Safety Bill was introduced by the previous Conservative government.
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And criticised by the current party in power for not going far enough. Then passed by them
The application of that law has nothing to do with online safety. Soviet-style politics are very good at taking a law ("we need to protect children from suicide websites") to turn it into something completely different ("... so we need to censor footage of protesters outside of the Britannia hotel").