Michelle Donelan, UK Digital Culture Secretary (Picture: ycnetwork.uk
The UK Online Safety Bill is presented to parliament for its final reading next week. Secretary of State for Digital Culture Michelle Donelan announced this morning that the controversial “legal but harmful” clause has been removed and thus free speech has been protected. Anti self-harm activists and groups opposinthe Gay BLTQ movement's push for paedophile equal rights and the sexualisation of children don’t like it one little bit, though free-speech enthusiasts should take no comfort from that. The Bill puts into legal jeopardy anything that creates “a material risk of significant harm to an appreciable number of adults in the United Kingdom”.
Significant harm? What constitutes “significant harm”? As with the previous 'legal but harmful' nonsence who gets to define what exactly is harmful and what is not. Precedent tells us “harm” is very much in the heart of the beholder.
Say that a private citizen posts:
Biological sex trumps gender ID. Transwomen are transwomen – not actual women.
If a Gay BLTQ rights activist reports the post to Ofcom – or to the publishing platform, or to the court, in a private prosecution – saying,
This hateful speech has damaged the core of my identity. It has attempted to erase my very being. I feel not just disparaged but annihilated. Half of all trans children who are denied will attempt suicide. I am now in danger of killing myself.
How can that not be interpreted as “significant harm”? The question is – under this Bill, will Kathleen Stock (the university lecturer hounded from her job by woke activists) be able to question gender ideology on social media?
A critical reading of the Bill suggests she will not. Activists will claim harm. And even if Ofcom prevaricates, the owner of the platform will fear the threat being fined 10% of its worldwide income while its users are scared away by loony leftie hate mobs. It will censor the posts of private citizens and all posts like it “to prevent harm,”
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Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity (aka Virtue Signalling,) Yoel Roth, said Twitter is seeing “governments become more aggressive in how they try to use legal tactics to unmask the people using our service” and as a way to “silence people”. This is an unconscioius irony as Twitter traded on its reputation for silencing opinions that its far left founders did not approve of. (Tech Outlook). However the view that social media platforms are being treated unfairly unless they are allowed to influence democratic elections through censorship of non 'woke' contributors is shared by WhatsApp CEO, Will Cathcart, who this week said his company might cease operating in the UK if the Online Safety Bill reaches the statute book in its current form. (BBC).
Cathcart specifically referring to a new, government-backed amendment to the bill requiring tech firms like WhatsApp to use “best endeavours” to deploy new technology in identifying and removing child sexual abuse and exploitation and grooming content if existing technology isn’t suitable for that purpose on their respective platforms. (Sky News).
Under the new amendment online regulators Ofcom will be able to demand that tech firms implement new technology to help find abuse - related material and stop its spread. (Guardian).
Mr Cathcart said that “what’s being proposed is that… we read everyone’s messages”, which suggests WhatsApp, having reclassified itself as a publisher rather than an open platform by censoring certain content, fears Ofcom may well ask online service providers to pursue ‘client-side scanning’, a controversial surveillance method which allows providers of end-to-end encrypted communication services to automatically scan private chats, messages, texts, images, videos and speech sent from that ‘client’s’ phone for suspicious content which could then automatically be reported to the police. (BBC News).
For Whats App's owners the fundamental problem with client-side scanning is that it undermines the company's’s unique selling point, namely, secure, end-to-end encryption. As a spokesman told the BBC’s Tech Tent podcast, “WhatsApp’s a global product. People use it… to talk across countries all the time. And so if we had to lower security for the world to accommodate a [regulatory] requirement in one country, as a business decision, that would be very foolish for us.”
Would WhatsApp go dark in the UK if the amended Online Safety Bill is passed into law?, CEO Cathcart said, “To date, the way we’ve worked is we’ve offered a global service and some countries choose to block it,” he replied. “I hope that never happens in a liberal democracy.”
The case for the Government’s amendment is of course that it will protect children. According to the National Crime Agency, there are between 550,000 and 850,000 people in the UK who pose a sexual risk to children, and it’s not difficult to understand why secure, end-to-end encryption might prove useful to those wishing to circulate depraved images online. That’s why Home Secretary Priti Patel has argued that “things like end-to-end encryption significantly reduce the ability for platforms to detect child sexual abuse”. (Telegraph).
The fact is that the internet and its World Wide Web derivative is a technology that was designed for the publising and exchange of business and academic information. As a medium for social networking, a vehicle for electronic commerce or anything involving sensitive information or communications related to criminal activity it is not fit for purpose. To make it so simply requires all users to clearly identify themselves and thus become accountable for their online activity. If we want an uncensored, unregulated internet we must learn to behave responsibly.
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