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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Libs gonna push and push to censor TikTok, etc... Until the precedent comes back to haunt them.
This comment was brought to my attention as it was reported for being too dumb to exist.
As I'm not a moderator of this community, I'll leave that judgment to others.
However, I will point out that the Online Safety Act was passed in 2023, towards the end of well over a decade of British politics being dominated by the Tories. Labour only won the election in 2024.
So, despite popular belief, the liberals are not the ones taking your rights away. Unless you consider Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak to be liberals, of course. Which you might, as nobody using the word "liberal" seems to have even the faintest idea what it means any more.
The Online Safety Act is not about regulating TikTok, it's about surveillance underneath a thin veil of protecting children. And it is very much a Tory piece of work.
One might say it's piece of work by pieces of work.
This is OSA in the UK, not KOSA in the US. I don't disagree with you, but this was just British conservatives doing their thing, not based off of US legal precedents.