UK - Lord Sumption Criticizes Online Safety Bill

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):

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Yes, anyone paying attention to the direction censorship has been going can see the disaster this will create (as if it wasn’t already bad enough!)

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I don’t trust either of these politicians to deliver on their promises but it’s a good sign that campaigning has had some impact:

Both Tory Leadership Candidates Will Scrap ‘Legal But Harmful’ Clause in Online Safety Bill

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I have been a fan of the marvellous Lord Sumption since the early COVID days.

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