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Comment by exasperaited

1 day ago

It's an interesting thing but I think their specific concerns are somewhat overcooked.

As another commenter pointed out in the earlier thread: > The categorisation regulations are a statutory instrument rather than primary legislation, so they _are_ open to judicial review. But the Wikimedia foundation haven't presented an argument as to why the regulations are unlawful, just an argument for why they disagree with them.

Ofcom's SI could simply be modified to exclude research texts, and it could even be modified to exclude Wikipedia specifically; there's no obvious problem with that considering its scale and importance.

If you go through Ofcom's checker:

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> And it could even be modified to exclude Wikipedia specifically;

That's certainly a potential workaround. But carve outs often mean that similar communities become hard to create!

  • I don't doubt that. But again, it is secondary legislation. It's highly amenable to ministerial and parliamentary scrutiny, and it will be amended.

    • That is exactly the problem. It's unpredictable, and in the hand of a government with a serious authoritarian and pro-censorship attitude.

  • Also creates system for brown envelopes, so only well connected to the establishment could get an exemption.