The Online Safety Bill, maybe you've heard about it?
There is a lot of dull jargon in this bill, as is the case with all highly consequential bills, but peppered throughout are rather vague yet alarming clauses. For example, section 10 details crimes of transmitting “Harmful, false and threatening communications” and then refuses to clearly define what will be considered “harmful” and what the criteria will be to determine whether or not something is “false”.Additionally, the bill makes it a crime to “send a message” containing false information in clause 156…then in the next breath, it grants immunity to every newspaper, television channel and streaming service in clause 157…
It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what the true aim behind this bill is: to remove the right of the public to disseminate information and put that power once again solely in the hands of state and corporate media. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi…
