Tag: OSA

2 posts tagged OSA.

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  UK OSA: Already More Harm than Good

  Tech & Industry 10 Oct 2025

  The Online Safety Act's first victims are in. The recent Discord breach, leaking 70,000 government IDs collected for age verification, isn't a bug in the system...it's a feature. This predictable disaster is exactly what security experts warned about, and it's just the tip of the iceberg of harms this legislation is actively causing UK citizens, from geoblocking to the slow death of the free web.

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  The UK's race to the bottom

  Tech & Industry 29 Jul 2025

  The "loicense" meme is no longer a joke in the UK. Sold as a law to "protect the children," the Online Safety Act has become a nightmare of state-level censorship and surveillance. From needing an ID for gaming to threatening Wikipedia, this is how the UK's insane overreach is fundamentally breaking the internet for everyone.