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Comment by Doctor_Fegg

8 days ago

The Online Safety Bill was introduced by the previous Conservative government.

And criticised by the current party in power for not going far enough. Then passed by them

The application of that law has nothing to do with online safety. Soviet-style politics are very good at taking a law ("we need to protect children from suicide websites") to turn it into something completely different ("... so we need to censor footage of protesters outside of the Britannia hotel").