Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal(prestonbyrne.com)
34 pointsby iamnothere9 hours ago9 comments
  • ablation3 minutes ago
    Nadine Dorries is one of the least credible, least trustworthy political gadflies you could possibly imagine, only ever truly content when being fed the oxygen of publicity.
  • dwroberts3 hours ago
    For people outside the UK: this person is not really credible. She is an incompetent moron that is desperate for any coverage, especially if it helps get attention for Reform, the party she defected to

    (this is not defending the act, just to call her the architect of anything is probably too much)

    • ChrisRRan hour ago
      On brand with their platform of "Everything the current government does is bad so you should vote for us. We don't have any better solutions, we just know that it's bad"
  • stephen_g7 hours ago
    Ah, the good old "I never thought leopards would eat my face" after voting for the 'leopards eating people's faces party'...

    Somehow I have zero hope the bill she is proposing as a replacement could be any better than the absolute horror that the OSA is though...

    • Defletter5 hours ago
      Ditto, but also the so-called "Free Speech Bill" advocated by the publisher which explicitly attempts to import America-style free speech into the country as law. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be something Parliament is entertaining, at least not yet.
      • streetfighter64an hour ago
        What's wrong with america-style free speech? In my opinion that's one of the few things they got more right than many european countries.
        • Defletteran hour ago
          Have you not noticed what it's done to their country?
          • streetfighter6443 minutes ago
            Done? I'm having a hard time seeing how not jailing people for objectionable tweets led to the election of Trump (which I'm assuming you're referring to). USA has many deep problems in their politics and if you haven't noticed, have been waging unjust wars for almost their entire history. The recent events are nothing more than a continuation of how it's always been going. If you want to attribute that to free speech, sure, but I'm not seeing the causation honestly.
  • justinclift5 hours ago
    Hmmmm:

    > By harmonizing to U.S. free speech standards, the UK will make it considerably easier, as a political matter, enter into data sharing and cross-border cooperation agreements, like CLOUD Act agreements, with the United States.

  • stuaxo2 hours ago
    I'm not in favour of the online safety act, but the problem is she is incredibly stupid - nobody will listen to her.
  • bad_username4 hours ago
    In the age of toxic empathy, "think about the children" is a very common tool for nefarious uses.
  • kylegordon4 hours ago
    "harmonize UK and US law on political speech"

    I can't think of anything worse. This is just the extreme right wing pushing the Overton Window even further

    • bonesss30 minutes ago
      Step 1: reject and leave the EU to be free of their colonial rulers in Brussels

      Step 2: harmonize all laws and regulations with EU anyways without voting influence because Single Market access is lucrative and vital

      Step 3: start harmonizing other laws with the US in hopes of courting a new colonial ruler

      Step 4: …?

      ———

      With love, this feels like a situation where a good friend should simply have taken the car keys away.

  • JonAtkinson5 hours ago
    This is RWNJ garbage dressed up in false "think tank" legitimacy.
  • dijksterhuis7 hours ago
    tl;dr author wants uk to be more like the usa. nadine dorris complaining in an opinion column somewhere is a convenient way for him to pivot to talking about his think tank’s white paper about wanting to make that happen.