Dubbed the UK censorship act these days, will it survive the political backlash we are witnessing? Will big tech work to get it right rather than cut off the UK? Can the UK put a stopper back in the bottle? Is this really about social media when it is pornhub doing the blocking? No mention of the fediverse in this article either sadly, but a good read nevertheless. And he has got something right: the US megas have been extreme amplifiers. But Pornhub is Canadian
The OSA should have been explicitly worded to exclude organisations like the Wikimedia Foundation from its scope. Clearly the intent of the law was not to clamp down on the Wikimedia Foundation, so the law should have been written such that the Wikimedia Foundation fell clearly outside of its scope. It’s just very poorly drafted.