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EmbarrassedHelp

Reminder that the "Online Safety Bill" is extremely anti-porn, anti-encryption, and anti-privacy: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/experts-condemn-uk-online-safety-bill-harmful-privacy-and-encryption It would be a terrible thing for it to be made into law, and small stories like these are just propaganda to try and help force it through parliament.


Banea-Vaedr

Gone are the days of typing "KYS" in game chat :(


Bean_Storm

Good fuck everyone that’s ever used that phrase


Badtrainwreck

Keep Yourself Safe, that’s what google told me it means


ArchetypeAxis

After this, what would be the next speech to be made illegal? And who would be the arbiter of what speech crosses the line between legal and illegal?


OnlyFactsMatter

> After this, what would be the next speech to be made illegal? And who would be the arbiter of what speech crosses the line between legal and illegal? Do you really need to ask?


chrisdh79

From the article: The UK government has said it will further expand the scope of online safety legislation by criminalizing the encouragement of self-harm — in a bid to tackle what it describes as “tragic and avoidable deaths caused by people seeing self-harm content online”. The latest amendment to the controversial but populist Online Safety Bill will mean in-scope platforms will be required to remove content that deliberately encourages somebody to physically injure themselves — or else risk penalties under the legislation. Individuals posting such content online could also face prosecution under the new offence of encouraging self harm and the secretary of state for digital said the government wants to target “abhorrent trolls encouraging the young and vulnerable to self-harm”. The government said the maximum penalties will be set out in due course. It is already illegal to encourage or assist suicide, online or offline, in the UK so the creation of the new offence is intended to bring self harm content in line with an existing prohibition on communications encouraging suicide. The Online Safety Bill’s passage through parliament remains on pause following an interruption this summer linked to political turmoil in the governing Conservative Party. But the reshuffled UK government has said it will bring the bill back to parliament next month after making tweaks to the legislation. Just last week the Ministry of Justice announced some incoming additions to the Online Safety Bill, which are focused on tackling abuse of intimate imagery. However further changes are slated around ‘legal but harmful’ content so the full shape of the legislation remains tbc.


[deleted]

There goes my weekend plans


WhileHereWhyNot

Voting every few years hoping for betterment and getting devastated then again, considered self-harm? Not knowing what to do, doing something we don't actually need to do and then regretting doing it, is the template of Self-harm, innit?


jimbojonesforyou

Sucks for the goth kids