Apparently a thing called “The Online Safety Act” came into force this week in the United Kingdom.
Apparently it is already being used in ways similar to dictatorships such as China and Cuba get frequently criticised for engaging in.
A Petition to get rid of it is gaining signatures at a rather rapid rate of knots, getting in excess of 129k signatures at time of cobbling this together.
The “Online Safety Act” is being misued.
Sign this petition to tell Parliament to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine https://t.co/RznGIgz4uu
— John Duck (@jduck1979) July 26, 2025
🚨FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK, GOVT NOW CONTROL WHAT YOU SEE ONLINE
Today the Conservatives “Online Safety Bill” has come into effect. Here are the consequences:
👁️ Say goodbye to private encrypted messages,platforms can now be forced to scan them.
🌹Yvette Cooper decides what…
— Alex Armstrong (@alexharmstrong) July 25, 2025
> Wake up
> New UK law banning +18 content without ID verification
> Banned from opening channels on my own Discord server
> MY DISCORD SERVER. THAT I OWN.I’m tired of defending the UK.
It truly is shit to be British. pic.twitter.com/GT23iFdnbe— No Arm Whatley (@WhatleyLeague) July 25, 2025
Today the online safety law takes effect in Britain, allowing the state to suppress free speech.
Well done to those “conservative” ministers that made it happen; Jeremy Wright, Nadine Dorries, Michelle Donelan & Oliver Dowden.
— Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@DouglasCarswell) July 25, 2025
It took all of 12 hours for the Online Safety Act to switch from protecting kids from porn to censoring protests outside migrant hotels.
Day 1. pic.twitter.com/gRsY7YhlFe— Morgoth (@MorgothsReview) July 25, 2025
Not content with shutting down a forum for hamster owners, the Online Safety Act now prevents anyone from accessing forums discussing cider and quitting smoking without giving some random company a selfie.
No wonder our political class are despised. https://t.co/1rbBP7wi1q
— Sam Dumitriu (@Sam_Dumitriu) July 25, 2025
The Online Safety Act is a phenomenally shit piece of legislation, designed to make the UK a worse place to use the web, despised being promoted as being the exact opposite. It does not offer safety, it just incentivises VPN usage – moving requests out of jurisdiction. https://t.co/JI8sOFIdEx
— Isaac (@irg111) July 25, 2025
This is also true of many subreddits. Not even explicit ones. We’re doing a North Korea for no reason.
Not a single child will be helped by cutting Britain from much of the internet – and therefore VPNs being used by default.
The internet will become *less* safe for children. https://t.co/0ChVsnODpe
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) July 25, 2025
The Online Safety Act is another predictably poisonous fruit of the last Conservative Government and one more reason why the Tories should never be allowed near power again. https://t.co/fjXBE9oCzy
— James Orr (@jtworr) July 26, 2025
The Conservative Party has effectively built a legal architecture that benefits communists and open-borders activists – and, predictably, it’s already being abused on Day 1. If you still vote Tory or even vaguely support this clown party, hang your head in shame.
— Mike Jones (@technopopulist) July 25, 2025
I see that while I’ve been on holiday everyone has realised the Online Safety Act is an absolute shitshow.
— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) July 26, 2025
This is the biggest ever assault on free speech in the UK.
Already the ‘Online Safety Act’ is censoring footage of protests against migrant hotels, and the government that loves locking people up for speech is forcing people to scan their faces and IDs.
This Tory monstrosity…
— Zia Yusuf (@ZiaYusufUK) July 26, 2025
🚨BREAKING: It’s been revealed that the NEW Online Safety Bill currently censoring people online can be re-written with even stricter laws at any time by a government minister.
No vote required
No checks eitherJust one person, writes to OFCOM and its done.
We live in 1984 pic.twitter.com/0Lns49ipTu
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) July 26, 2025
🚨 NEW: Section 179 of the Online Safety Act is a ticking time bomb for free speech.
It makes it a crime to send a message you know is false if it causes “non-trivial psychological harm” — and if you don’t have a “reasonable excuse”.
Who defines “harm”?
Who decides what’s… pic.twitter.com/WV9cnFrHBi— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) July 26, 2025
Resist censorship, protect free speech, repeal the Online Safety Act. pic.twitter.com/BDafOV3rz0
— Restore Britain (@RestoreBritain_) July 26, 2025
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK – or even completely blocked – thanks to the Online Safety Act.
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) July 26, 2025
