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Post #4147171

2026-07-27 17:02 UTC

So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place... I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/the-online-safety-act-implementation-and-impact/news/217266/online-safety-act-inquiry-launched-by-committee/ If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence. That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors. That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango. That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited. I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator. #OnlineSafetyAct

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  • @ret@furry.engineer 2026-07-27 22:04

    Hopefully @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org will be submitting evidence? @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org #OnlineSafetyAct

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  • @ret@furry.engineer It's certainly worth submitting evidence -- great suggestion!  That said, the whole framing of this is that the OSA didn't go far enough and needs to be enforced more vigorously.  It's still an opportunity to push for reform (and potentially even getting rid of it), but making progress is going to take some serious organizing to get a very loud outcry so that MPs start to see political costs.

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