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The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
Immediately after the child safety rules came into effect, platforms began classifying breaking news footage, war coverage, investigative journalism and political protest material as harmful content. Last year, at a summit for content creators at the White House attended by Biden, the then president, his adviser Neera Tanden spoke about the administration’s goal of removing all anonymity from the web. Taylor Lorenz is a technology journalist who writes the newsletter User Mag and is the author of the bestselling book Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet.
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