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Around 450 People Will Be Working On The Enforcement Of The UK’s Online Safety Act – To Begin With, At Least…
Techdirt has been covering the UK’s awful Online Safety Act for nearly five years now. During that time it has changed name — it was originally called the Online Harms Bill — but the many bad ideas…
Ofcom has been poaching staff from Big Tech companies as the UK media watchdog prepares to enforce one of the world’s toughest new regulatory regimes for the internet. As we have seen with the EU’s GDPR privacy legislation, companies like Meta are happy to litigate repeatedly in an effort to block rulings that would adversely affect their business models. Along the way it will also harm the UK’s flourishing digital economy with an unrealistic new compliance regime, and encourage other countries to engage in the same hopeless quest to make the Internet “safe.”
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