Online Safety Bill: News and views
The Online Safety Bill, as it stands, has so much potential to harm that people must be kept safe from it.
The Online Safety Bill, as it stands, will allow the Government to determine what online content is legal and has so much potential to harm that people must be kept safe from it.
For some content there is a good case for the bill, such as that encouraging young people to commit suicide.
More controversial is censorship of content that is factually correct, but not politically correct – like, for example, the arguments that Sars-CoV-2 potentially originated in a Wuhan lab, or the Hunter Biden laptop story. In fact these are a couple of examples of content once censored but now no longer deemed to be harmful, and so can now be expressed.
"Legal-but-harmful" means “politically inconvenient just at the moment".
The podcast by "Lotus Eaters" on March 18th has an entertaining look at this:
