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Save Encryption to Keep Us Safe
The Online Safety Bill requires ALL online speech to be monitored for “harmful content”, including your private conversations with friends and family.
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No state censorship of online speech
What’s legal to say should be legal to type – a government regulator shouldn’t control your speech, online or off – yet the new Online Safety Bill could lead to just that, or worse.
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17 Jan 2022 By Sahdya Darr
Government disregards Court’s Immigration Exemption ruling
This week the House of Commons and the House of Lords will consider the Government’s proposed legislation regarding amendments to the immigration exemption.
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22 Dec 2021 By Mike Morel
Our year of action
With Britain still in the throes of Covid-19, 2021 was a truly unique year for the movement to protect our digital rights.
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17 Dec 2021 By Robert Sharp
Joint Committee advice cannot fix flawed Online Safety Bill
On 14 December 2021, the Joint Parliamentary Committee charged with scrutinising the draft Online Safety Bill published its report.
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14 Dec 2021 By Jim Killock
Online Safety Bill will not tackle monopoly abuse
As Parliament makes its recommendations on the Online Safety Bill, trying to fix the problems of accountability it brings, while perhaps adding new complexities, we need to step back and ask whether the Bill will do the job it is setting out to do.
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