Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption emerged as a critic of the UK government’s COVID-19 lockdown policies, now he is weighing in to the debate about the Online Safety Bill:
“The hidden harms in the Online Safety Bill”
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Technically, she is right: her bill does not directly censor the internet. It instead seeks to impose on media companies an opaque and intrusive culture of self-censorship – which will have the same effect.
He also appears briefly on the Spectator podcast:
See also the previous thread if you’re not familiar with the bill (it’s getting rather long so I started a new topic):