>Five things we can’t post about thanks to the Online Safety Act
>1) Cultural treasures and historical truths
>A thread on X detailing the life of Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades has also been suppressed, presumably it’s been deemed ‘Islamophobic’.
>2) Women’s rights
>A disgruntled 53-year-old user of X discovered that a tweet calling for single-sex toilets was branded too ‘sensitive’ by the censors for her to read.
>3) Keir Starmer, the government and the state of the UK
>A Guido Fawkes article headlined ‘Keir Suffers Extinction Event’, featuring a baby with Starmer’s head superimposed on it, has been put behind the age wall on X.A video of a protester being restrained by police outside an asylum hotel in Leeds has been hidden from UK users. X has since confirmed that this was thanks to the Online Safety Act.
>4) The grooming-gangs scandal
>Similarly, a parliamentary speech made by Tory MP Katie Lam about the rape gangs – in which she quoted powerful testimony from survivors – has been restricted.
>5) The Online Safety Act itself
>When compiling a list of posts that have been censored on X, Benjamin Jones of the Free Speech Union found himself censored for bringing the absurdities of the Online Safety Act to the public’s attention. In this way, the act simultaneously suppresses online content and stifles debate about that suppression.
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