Well, @openrightsgroup, at least I got a reply from my MP about the #OSA
NOTE: due to the character limit in alt-text, I have had to shorten the 1st and 2nd pages, so the text is missing important detail.
She mentions a URL which I have not read yet:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/roadmap-to-regulation
At least she took the time to write a decent response, although it didn't address all my problems with it.
I will take some time and try and write a reply.
Presumably, to access this resource, the visitor will need to prove their age??
#ukpolitics #osa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r0vk1j4j8o
UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act - https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/uk_lords_take_aim_at/ "Peers will quiz campaigners on whether Ofcom's new measures will actually work, or just add more compliance pain" #osa
I admit I laughed in delight. False equivalance yes, but the UK Online Safety Act isn't deterring them then?
@openrightsgroup
This is definitely “we fucked up in creating an unworkable #OSA, so now we’re panicking and going to fuck up some more in a misguided attempt to fix our fuck up”
VPNs must not face the chop 
Next week the UK House of Lords will debate whether VPNs undermine the Online Safety Act.
Banning or blocking VPNs will shatter security, privacy and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable.
Read our briefing 
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/
VPNs protect families, businesses and democracy.
They keep NHS data secure, help parents manage online risks, and give people in repressive states access to news.
Treating VPNs as a “problem” is misguided. Attacking them is an exercise in throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Efforts should focus on educational measures for young people and regulating the age verification industry.
VPNs aren’t a meaningful threat to age assurance.
6–12 year olds are very unlikely to use them, due to technological and economic barriers.
Older teens already know other workarounds. For these teenagers educational rather than ineffectve technical interventions might be more appropriate.
Adults use VPNs as they don’t trust unregulated age assurance providers with their personal data.
Experts scrutinized Ofcom's Online Safety Act governance. They're concerned - https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/concern_and_sympathy_as_experts/ "Academics and OSA stakeholders say watchdog needs to amend how controversial legislation is enforced" it's a disaster #osa
(German-language) discussion on #openscience policies in the Aula: starting with media theorist Clemens Apprich from the University of Applied Arts on what such a policy could mean for an arts university. #osa #osfestival2025 #angewandte
Have a long way home today? Use your time wisely: Open Science Austria #osa has an #openscience #meme competition running! Learn more at their booth downstairs. Important: Deadline today 11:59 pm - create the meme yourself - don't publish it until after the winners were announced. #osfestival2025
The UK Online Safety Act is a badly designed, overblown law that's laying waste to content online.
The government must address the threats to freedom of expression from over-moderation, not use Henry VIII powers to extend its scope.
Write to your MP
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
The UK Online Safety Act is ballooning in scope.
Bumping up 'self-harm' content as a priority offence means these sort of posts will be stripped from social media for adults and kids.
ORG's @JamesBaker explains how this change to the law will result in therapeutic or support content being censored.
Watch now 
https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/gQq5ccfPvw3ibzt1EwNMuX
Censorship creeps onwards 
Ignoring issues with the UK Online Safety Act, the government is using Henry VIII powers to engulf more content.
Aimed at blocking 'self-harm' content, algorithms will misidentify support resources and content will vanish behind age gates.
https://www.digit.fyi/uk-gov-to-toughen-online-safety-act-against-self-harm-content/
Turning #OpenScience policies into real impact! Explore strategies and opportunities with experts from universities, funders, and policy-making: Clemens Apprich (Die Angewandte), Stefan Hanslik (BMFWF), Katharina Rieck (@fwf), and Barbara Sánchez Solís (TU WIen). This panel discussion is a cooperation with Open Science Austria. #osfestival2025 #osa
Are you a member of the #UK #Labour party?
Congratulations! You are a supporter of #genocide, draconian #censorship and division... to name a few. Proud of yourself?
I fucking hope your friends and family are as disgusted with you as I am!
When Trolls Take On Tyrants: 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Extraterritorial Censorship - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/ "Online Safety Act essentially claims that any website accessible in the UK must comply with UK law, regardless of where it’s based or operated. This is both practically unworkable and constitutionally problematic." #osa
I've stated this on the form, but the idea of "having to tell Ofcom" anything is a bit dangerous - sounds like every interactive website would have to register centrally just to exist! That's a significant further escalation from where we are now.
It should be passive, as with the current OSA - you do an assessment which can be made available on request (at least that's my understanding of it)
“Six months into enforcement, #Britain’s techno-solutionist fantasy has crashed into reality with predictable results. Beneficial #online #communities have been obliterated, #VPN adoption has surged 1,400%, and the UK has created a perfect case study for why governments can’t regulate away complex social problems with #algorithmic band-aids and #surveillance theater.”
Well done #Strayan techo Gov. This is what we look forward to 
#OSA / #Australia <https://tarakiyee.com/the-uks-online-safety-act-a-lesson-in-technosolutionism/>
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