>Technology platforms are to be compelled by law to proactively find and stop content promoting self-harm to adults as well as children, in a bid to boost online safety.>The change to strengthen the Online Safety Act will make clear to social media companies that it is not optional as to whether to take quick action on protecting users from “toxic material”, the new Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said.>She said such content is so harmful that it can be “the difference between life and death”.>The change – legally requiring tech firms to prevent such content from appearing in the first place, rather than simply reacting to it – is expected to come into effect this autumn and will mean that encouraging or assisting serious self-harm will be treated as a priority offence.>The Molly Rose Foundation – set up by bereaved father Ian Russell after his 14-year-old daughter Molly took her own life, having viewed harmful content on social media – welcomed the strengthening of the Act.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ofcom-liz-kendall-samaritans-government-b2822293.htmlThe OSA is getting worse. So much worse. Now all Brits will be blocked from viewing "self-harm/suicide" content even if they are verified as 18+.If they apply these laws liberally, then we could end up with a bizarre scenario where people in the UK can no longer listen to a song that romanticises suicide (so a significant portion of rock/alternative music), or watch a film/play a video game that features a suicide/self-harm scene.
Just seems like normal UK stuff
>>106526841All according to projections.
Can't wait till they start blocking resources on weight loss because anorexic kids will use them to starve themselves lmao
>>106526841I'm meant to care what Airstrip One and Big Brother Starmer are doing - why?
>>106526841Stop having toxic and problematic thoughts. Be happy.
>>106526864This. It's amazing how no matter who you vote for, it's always the wrong choice. And in the UK it seems to be twice as true somehow.
kys
>>106527034???
>draft law>be warned it's ineffective>scrap it>draft same law>same warning>push it through anyway>people circumvent it>"we don't care">extend the ineffective lawwhat is the purpose here? coz it ain't protecting nobody
>>106527018The UK population are the sheepiest cattle ever. They'll eat up whatever propaganda is thrown at them.
>>106526841>slippery slope happening this quicklyThey didn't even give it a few months before moving on from "this is just to protect kids".
>>106526841Just how oversocialized and labotomized is the average britbong? Are buildings no longer tall enough for you guys to drop off? Don't know how to make a brownoid "disappear" that you had enough with?
>>106526841UK is basically on its way to becoming failed state
The UK is a failed state.
>>106527064Kill democracy. Citizens have a fundamental right to all information, the right to skepticism, and the right to be wrong. Democracy has a dark side consequence too, like negativity, and people that are confidently incorrect.Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with trust. Trust is the primary mechanism of fascism.Filtering information like this is therefore stealing democracy. It is normalizing trust in neo feudal overlords. It is a coup. The only issue with failed coups is the timeline. This has been a long term plan. Within a decade, citizen will be functionally equivalent to slave. "You will own nothing and you'll be happy about it," because otherwise you will be dead.
>>106527306>>106527399well that was quick
honestly, at this point just ban us from the internet completely. if i reflect back on the past decade i don't think i have gained anything positive from this whole experience, i could've been outside or had actual real hobbies
>>106527478OI U GOT A LOICENCE FOR FLYIN THAT KITE??
>>106526841I made this OC a couple days ago and was waiting for a thread to post it in.
>>106527523i don't. but the older i get the more i feel ted was right, technology was a mistake
>>106526841Islamic country wants to censor the internet not surprising
>>106527306>>106527399Checked and kek
>>106527064It's a mix of pork barreling and just adding more laws to the point where everything eventually becomes illegal through some technicality or an interpretive dance of the law. They don't have to enforce these laws or care that their presence still costs money, but they need them for the occasion when they want to fuck somebody or something up that isn't hurting or bothering anybody that other laws are too narrow to catch.It's the phase of late stage democracy when it transitions to pound me in the ass authoritarianism communism. The vast majority of people need very little oversight or government and care very little for politics, but the Karens and kikes of the world want power and to dictate the world. The allure of power is strong for the sociopaths of the world to reach the highest levels of government but is of little interest for regular honest people, until it becomes a real problem for us.
>>106527585Shariah law would be an improvement over where the UK is heading desuAt least Islam, while shit, comes with SOME benefits when it comes to women and lgbt topics for example.In the UK you get the surveillance police state, terrorist attacks and the rainbow feminism on top.
>>106526841Suicide is a noble and rational act by a man who understands he has no worth or value to offer his tribe members.
Reminder that British subject VOTED for all this
>>106526966happiness is mandatory.
>people still think democracy existsthere is only propaganda
>>106526841Nothing to see here, social media companies like X (formerly Twitter) will ignore this as usual and send you sarcastic updates on posts your report that read like:>We're sorry to report that our automated AI shit found nothing wrong. If you think this was a mistake you can file another report. We know this was frustrating but we do hope it won't put you off from reporting future posts.
>>106527691big corpos have teams of lawyers and lobbyists who allow them to comply and/or tactically ignore legislation, but small businesses, individuals and hobbyists.John's Model Railway Forum or whatever can't afford to comply with a 1000 page legal document or have 24/7 jannies monitoring every post so they'll just shut it down and move to Faceberg further centralizing the web and placing it under corpo control.
y r u so dark?
>>106530731What are the restrictions on VPNs, tor and i2p? They're as unrestricted as any country. Or do they mean restrictions that apply to VPN companies operating in the United Kingdom (a bad idea to do that in the first place)?
>>106530876Ah,>Advertising the use of VPNs can be illegal under the Online Safety Act.In the same sense that advertising gambling or alcohol can be illegal in some contexts. Irrelevant for any user of the services and the ads are still all over YouTube anyway, VPN usage spiked massively after this bill passed.
>>106530772
Charles in Charge
>>106530889that's how it starts10 years later you get a visit from the police for having connected to a known VPN IP
>>106530988They already said they're not going to ban them though. It especially doesn't make sense due to their prominence in the enterprise and business use-cases (VPNs are not just a thing privacy conscious people use. They're a crucial tool for connecting to infrastructure)
>>106527702Mohammed, please.
>>106531005>the bolice can't possibly tell the difference between connecting to a well known corpo IP and a public NordVPN server
>>106531005>They already said they're not going to ban them thoughSorry, I didn't know you were 12. Good bless your innocence.
>>106531086They literally can't if you front it through the same VPS / Cloud provider that some random business uses. Loads of VPN providers use cloud hosting for their servers and don't necessarily fully own their infrastructure.They can of course get a warrant to compel information from the cloud provider but short of that there's no way to tell the difference.>>106531109If they wanted to ban them they'd have done so already.
>>106526841You're focused on this and meanwhile the EU is having another go at passing Chat Control, meaning an end to encrypted communications (for plebs like you, politicians are exempt of course). Western countries are all turning into dystopian shitholes.
>>106531159The EU is going to colectively burn in uprisings that it might as well fracture in the near future anyway
I´m not even living in the UK and it STILL PISSES ME OFF!Are there no freedom-minded brits left to finally topple this disgusting Nanny State?
>>106526841>OI! OI! OI! YOU FAHKIN CUNT! I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU GOT YOUR SUICIDE LOICENSE!?
>>106526841lol we went from oh no think of the children to oh no think of the adults real fast
>>106531005>They already said they're not going to ban them though.Yeah after proposing a ban and then getting so much fucking backlash that they had no other choice than to backpaddle. Give them 2-5 years, maybe less depends on how desperate they get, they'll try again, they always do.
>>106531518not enough to do anything meaningful
>>106526841>do you have a loicence for suicide?
>>106531529You jest but the Assisted Dying bill passed this year:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/20/assisted-dying-vote-uk-politics-latest-news-updatesYou will be able to get a suicide license now provided you meet certain criteria.
>>106526841I dont care, you voted for this
>>106531561To be fair if I was living in the UK I would certainly look for a way to kill myself too.
>The government that protects muslim pedo rape gangs raping white girls >The same government claims this is too protect childrenThis is all so they can get their foot in the door and start to ouright ban other forms of content, next it will be extreme political content which means banning anyone to the right of labour to try and ensure they won't be completely destroyed next election, which they will be because>Lost the muslim vote for supporting israel>Lost the working class vote for helping and participating in the muslim pedo rape gangs who hate them, whites and israel>Lost the socialist vote to JezbollahLike with the scottish girl carrying weapons, they tried to do you it was the little girls harassing immigrants and no one believed that shit because we have the video
Sites have to moderate their content? wow that's 1984 shit
>>106526841The social safety industrial complex says you can't learn about suicide. The hugs machine won't let you leave. You must be loving it, indefinitely.
>>106527034what does this post say? I’m in the UK and I can’t see it.
>>106526841what about substance abuse? will smokers, drinkers and trannies be banned from media forever?
>Legalize suicide>Ban suicide material online
>>106531529>>106531561>Law doesn’t say anything about killing your self if you’re alive to kill the other self.
The rise of angsoc ladies and geltelmen
