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No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online


Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permi…

Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. Online service providers must make a judgement about whether the content they host is harmful to children, and if so, address the risk by implementing a number of measures, which includes, but is not limited to: Since these measures took effect in late July, social media platforms Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, and X all introduced age checks to block children from seeing harmful content on their sites.

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