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Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same
The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations."
Last month, the UK rolled out new age verification measures under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), a new bill intended to protect the most vulnerable in the country from the worst of the internet. Before you start scribbling down all the details from your favourite Wikipedia pages in case it no longer exists in the UK in a couple months, the ruling is a little more open to interpretation than it sounds at first glance. Kyle previously said that anyone hoping to roll back the OSA is on the side of predators and in league with "extreme pornographers", so I'm not totally convinced he's the man for open dialogue about the issues just yet.
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