Many #UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access #Pornhub
https://www.404media.co/uk-pornhub-blocked-age-verification-vpn/
#nsfw #porn #privacy #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
Chewie
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The UK government may be looking to ban VPNs for children, effectively undermining the privacy they offer for everyone else - including adults. I've signed a petition to get them to reconsider this position. If you are a UK citizen, you can sign too: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
The UK government may be looking to ban VPNs for children, effectively undermining the privacy they offer for everyone else - including adults. I've signed a petition to get them to reconsider this position. If you are a UK citizen, you can sign too: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @mshelton useful: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-beginners/
Signal is centralised and was attempted backdoored by the uks online safety bill and saved by signal threatening to walk. Simplex is open source and quantum resistant e2ee like signal and also has its secret group chats and metadata protection like Signal but SimpleX is also decentralised with ip protection, tor support, no persistent id basically "a burner phone for every contact"
Signals centralisation also makes it more vulnerable to total censorship, all you need to do is block signals domains, being a decentralised network SimplexChat has no single point of failure to censor and anyone can run their own relay node
#PSA #E2EE #Privacy #Encryption #Anonymity #Signal #SimpleX #UnitedKingdom #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship
Chip Butty
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Hidden within the UK Online Safety Act is the spy clause that threatens encryption on messaging apps.
As ORG's James Baker says, Ofcom "may be waiting to see what happens in Europe with the Chat Control proposal, because it’s quite hard for the UK to go alone.”
We spoke to Computer Weekly about some of the privacy threats coming up in 2026 ⬇️
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366636751/Privacy-will-be-under-unprecedented-attack-in-2026
#e2ee #encryption #ofcom #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol
Hidden within the UK Online Safety Act is the spy clause that threatens encryption on messaging apps.
As ORG's James Baker says, Ofcom "may be waiting to see what happens in Europe with the Chat Control proposal, because it’s quite hard for the UK to go alone.”
We spoke to Computer Weekly about some of the privacy threats coming up in 2026 ⬇️
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366636751/Privacy-will-be-under-unprecedented-attack-in-2026
#e2ee #encryption #ofcom #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol
hamish campbell
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ORG spoke out against criminalising free expression under the UK Prevent Duty.
An expanding definition of terrorism threatens racialised communities who are disproportionately targeted by a programme that hides surveillance behind safeguarding.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #PalestineAction #freedomofexpression #protest #ukpolitics #ukpol #Prevent
Chewie
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The UK Online Safety Act does nothing to challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Government needs to use competition powers so we can choose moderation engines and switch social media provider without losing our networks.
Read our interoperability report ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #fediverse
ORG spoke out against criminalising free expression under the UK Prevent Duty.
An expanding definition of terrorism threatens racialised communities who are disproportionately targeted by a programme that hides surveillance behind safeguarding.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #PalestineAction #freedomofexpression #protest #ukpolitics #ukpol #Prevent
ORG warned that lawful posts about Palestine could be wrongly removed in light of the ban on Palestine Action and overly broad definitions of terrorism.
The UK Online Safety Act must not be a vehicle to suppress political protest.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #PalestineAction #freedomofexpression #protest #ukpolitics #ukpol
Political protest came under attack during 2025 🤐
ORG raised the alarm that platforms could be pushed to suppress critical voices, journalism and social movements according to their duty to remove 'illegal' content under the UK Online Safety Act.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/banning-palestine-action-how-the-uk-government-is-silencing-dissent/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #PalestineAction #freedomofexpression #protest #ukpolitics #ukpol
ORG warned the UK Parliament that VPNs must not face the chop.
Banning or age-gating VPNs will shatter security and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable by playing into the hands predators online.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-briefing-warns-against-restricting-vpns/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #vpn
The UK Online Safety Act does nothing to challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Government needs to use competition powers so we can choose moderation engines and switch social media provider without losing our networks.
Read our interoperability report ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #fediverse
The UK Online Safety Act is badly designed.
ORG published a report setting out a rights-based approach to fix it.
One that limits the scope of the Act to minimise threats to free expression, our privacy rights and small sites.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
Small sites have been hit with onerous duties under the UK Online Safety Act. Many have shut down or geo-blocked the UK.
ORG published a guide through the regulatory maze of duties placed on online service providers by the Act and Ofcom.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
People have been forced to hand over personal data to unregulated age-verification companies to access content and app features way beyond porn.
The UK Online Safety Act put in place no regulatory standards for privacy or security.
We called for regulation ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
KawaiiPunk
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The UK Online Safety Act is a mess. MPs are debating the petition for its repeal now.
ORG calls for a rights-based approach:
Limit its scope to minimise threats to freedom of expression/small sites, and regulate age verification providers to protect privacy.
Read our briefing ⬇️
#onlinesafetyact #osa #onlinesafety #freedomofexpression #privacy #censorship #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Strypey
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The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.
It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.
Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-attend-debate-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol