A legal opinion has found that there are, “real and significant issues” regarding the lawfulness of a clause in the Online Safety Bill.

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The opinion finds that there is “likely to be significant interference with freedom of expression that is unforeseeable and which is thus not prescribed by law”.

This represents “a sea change in the way public communication and debate are regulated in this country” as the Bill would require online content to be screened and blocked before it is even posted, with tech companies that don’t comply being sanctioned. #OnlineSafetyBill #censorship #freedomodexpression

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Introducing the new Message Scanner!

Coming to your apps from the makers of the Online Safety Bill. It’s goodbye encryption and hello mass surveillance. Recommended by authoritarians everywhere.

Or tell the government #DontScanMe

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Has the government misleadingly tucked a public order provision into the #OnlineSafetyBill to leverage powers in containing protesters being pursued under the #PublicOrderBill? We're facing a dangerous attack on our rights that shrinks democratic debate. Find out more in our blog. #protest #humanrights

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Online Safety Bill: Will the upload filter ban images of protest?

Recently, we saw how police threatened and in a couple of cases, arrested, anti-monarchy protesters, following the death of the late queen Elizabeth II, The images were widely circulated on social media and the police eventually were forced to acknow…

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It's clear the #OnlineSafetyBill is being used for political ends. The new amendment aims to prevent people from seeing images of small boat crossings. Intercepting posts is barefaced censorship to erase the rights of refugees and migrants from democratic discourse. #censorship #migrants #refugees

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The UK will treat online images of immigrants crossing the Channel as a criminal offence - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

The announcement by United Kingdom government that online platforms will have to proactively remove images of immigrants crossing the Channel in small boats intended to bolster the UK’s hostile immigration policy.

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