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UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world

The UK’s Online Safety Act became fully operational in July 2025.  It is being used to restrict content globally. It has caused global and significant concerns about censorship of information that is of public interest. Technology companies

UK’s Online Safety Act is restricting speech globally; the UK government is censoring the world

The UK’s Online Safety Act became fully operational in July 2025.  It is being used to restrict content globally.

It has caused global and significant concerns about censorship of information that is of public interest. Technology companies are implementing broad age verification and content filtering measures to comply with the law, leading to the restriction of posts on topics like the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, parliamentary debates on serious crimes and even historical art.

In the following, Public and Politico raise the alarm as to what this means for Americans.   However, as well as from the USA, the impact of the UK’s new law is also being keenly watched in Australia, but for different reasons, because Australia is preparing to ban under-16s from social media.

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It’s Never Been More Urgent to Shut Down the Censorship Industrial Complex

The following is an email sent out by Michael Shellenberger on behalf of Public earlier today.

Dear Friend,

We had thought the election of Trump would end the deep state’s war on free speech.

Unfortunately, the totalitarians aren’t giving up. Around the world, governments have accelerated their demands for censorship, including by trying to incarcerate opposition presidential candidates, from Le Pen in France to Bolsonaro in Brazil.

And their ultimate aim, as Politico yesterday finally acknowledged, is to censor the entire planet – including all of us in the United States of America. “Does the [UK censorship] law really have such global implications?” asked Politico. “Well, yes.”

The good news is that we increasingly have the Censorship Industrial Complex on the run.

Over the last three days, Public has broken two major scoops that are being felt from Washington to Brasilia.

Yesterday, we published exclusive reporting on the corruption of the CIA’s intelligence analysis, and today we published new information from an agency whistle-blower, who contends that crucial steps for reform “have not been put in place.”

Moments ago, I received another email from the CIA in response to our tough questions about why it still hasn’t taken the steps that one of its own top analysts – someone who saw the abuse of power up close – says are necessary.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s Congress is paralysed from our reporting on Monday that the Supreme Court illegally used social media posts to keep nonviolent protesters in jail, and tomorrow I will testify on the blockbuster scoop reported by David Agape and Eli Viera, and edited by Alex Gutentag.

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The UK Triggers A Global Internet Argument

The following is extracted, and slightly edited for readability, from the Politico article mentioned in Shellenberger’s email above.

The United Kingdom is testing the limits of how far a single country can go to enforce its laws in a borderless internet – and triggering transatlantic political and legal waves in the process, Politico’s technology reporter, Aaron Mak, wrote.

The UK’s Online Safety Act (2023) (“OSA”) puts age verification limits on a whole range of material – pornography, hate speech, content promoting drugs and weapons, online harassment and depictions of violence.

The act’s verification provisions went into effect in late July. As soon as it did, UK internet users found themselves having to upload IDs and selfies to prove they were old enough to access certain content. Large platforms restricted everything from X posts on Gaza to subreddits on cigars, and blocked content entirely in certain cases.

The US quickly got involved.  The OSA has also triggered American-style arguments around chilling speech within the UK as well. 

A bipartisan House delegation travelled to the UK last week to discuss the law’s possible impact on the speech rights of Americans.   “When foreign governments try to export their speech codes to the United States, it undermines our First Amendment values,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.), who was on the trip, said.

Does the law really have such global implications? Well, yes. The UK’s Office of Communications, which is enforcing the OSA, has already sent letters to at least three websites operating outside the country, demanding that they conduct harmful speech audits. The letters note that failure to comply could result in “imprisonment for a term of up to two years, or a fine (or both).” (The U.S.-based platform Gab, which hosts Nazi and other extremist content, responded by going offline in the UK.)

What makes the OSA different to previous attempts of governments extending their speech laws beyond their countries’ borders is that it imposes ongoing duties on websites to self-regulate according to its terms. And the law applies to more than just porn sites.  Big platforms like Meta – as well as more freewheeling forums like Reddit and smaller discussion boards – are expected to more actively seek out hateful and violent content that needs to be age-gated.

If a US-based site does violate the OSA, the Act has measures to stymie websites without a presence on English soil. Ofcom has the authority to force third parties, like payment services or app stores, to stop doing business with the sites.

One path out for American technology companies is to ask the White House to pressure the UK in trade talks to just roll the rule back, as it’s been doing with technology laws in the European Union. However, UK officials have said the OSA is not up for debate in tariff negotiations.

Another path runs through the courts, but such a ruling from an American court is rare.

You can read the full Politico article HERE.

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