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OFCOM to be given wide ranging powers that would kill off the likes of ARRSE

Guido sums up the "woke erarti" thereat to websites ,ike ARRSE with sligghtly un-PC views:


GUIDO _OFCOM CENSORSHIP

The highlights of the new legislation includes:

  • Ofcom will create guidelines to instruct any company with ‘user-generated content’ about how to manage online censorship. This includes comments sections on websites like ARRSE…
  • Ofcom will be given the remit to draw up and adapt the details of how its internet regulation works. Taking away power from accountable politicians and giving it to faceless bureaucrats.
  • Companies (such as OliveNet, the holding company of ARRSE) will be expected to remove "illegal" content (basically anything that is a hate non-crime under the 2010 EA).
  • Ofcom will also create rules for content that “is not illegal but has the potential to cause harm”.
    • The Government claims Ofcom will take a less serious approach with legal speech, however the Government has confirmed legal speech is in scope for censorship.
    • It is often not immediately clear what is illegal and what is legal speech, meaning regulation will force major companies to take an overly-censorious approach in the face of fines, jail times, and website blocks.
  • The “risk-based and proportionate” approach gives high levels of discretion Ofcom staff. ARRSE readers may be interested to note that Ofcom’s new chief executive is a “Diversity & Inclusion Champion” for the civil service, and we all know how balanced and even-handed that lot of PC-Nazis are.
 
Guido sums up the "woke erarti" thereat to websites ,ike ARRSE with sligghtly un-PC views:


GUIDO _OFCOM CENSORSHIP

The highlights of the new legislation includes:

  • Ofcom will create guidelines to instruct any company with ‘user-generated content’ about how to manage online censorship. This includes comments sections on websites like ARRSE…
  • Ofcom will be given the remit to draw up and adapt the details of how its internet regulation works. Taking away power from accountable politicians and giving it to faceless bureaucrats.
  • Companies (such as OliveNet, the holding company of ARRSE) will be expected to remove "illegal" content (basically anything that is a hate non-crime under the 2010 EA).
  • Ofcom will also create rules for content that “is not illegal but has the potential to cause harm”.
    • The Government claims Ofcom will take a less serious approach with legal speech, however the Government has confirmed legal speech is in scope for censorship.
    • It is often not immediately clear what is illegal and what is legal speech, meaning regulation will force major companies to take an overly-censorious approach in the face of fines, jail times, and website blocks.
  • The “risk-based and proportionate” approach gives high levels of discretion Ofcom staff. ARRSE readers may be interested to note that Ofcom’s new chief executive is a “Diversity & Inclusion Champion” for the civil service, and we all know how balanced and even-handed that lot of PC-Nazis are.

How do they propose to enforce this legislation on sites based entirely overseas?
 

According to the link they would also be able to fine companies for not meeting your content standards??
It's just politicians who have no idea how the internet works bullshitting again.

They think they can control it like they do the press so they wave their willies around until someone explains that they are powerless which bursts their little power bubbles.

There's nothing that politicos of all flavours hate more than being told they're powerless :mrgreen:
 
It's just politicians who have no idea how the internet works bullshitting again.

They think they can control it like they do the press so they wave their willies around until someone explains that they are powerless which bursts their little power bubbles.

There's nothing that politicos of all flavours hate more than being told they're powerless :mrgreen:
It just smacks of censorship, which is a scary thing.
 
It just smacks of censorship, which is a scary thing.

Agreed. A number of Labour MPs still seem unable to understand why their pledge of free internet for all was not a roaring success. One of the reasons being, I suggest, that many people felt deploy uncomfortable about a government controlling the on/off switch and filters for it.
 
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