United Kingdom

5431 readers

304 users here now

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

135

UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by G4Z@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

59 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] blobchoice@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly that would seem like the most common sense idea that anyone would/could draw up from this, and for the most part I think this is what the gov is trying to do.

I think there's an unstated side effect from the Online Safety Act which nobody seems to be talking about - using the new powers to effectively censor Palestinian protests online.

You can read about it some more: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/human-rights-defenders-raise-concerns-that-online-safety-act-will-lead-to-censorship-of-palestine-protest/

I've genuinely never felt so depressed about voting in this government in my entire life. Actual gross dystopian bullshit.

[–] G4Z@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I voted for Jezza but I saw this coming. While I wanted the Tories out, I couldn't bring myself to vote for red Tories to replace them.

This is exactly the same shit they were pulling back in the Blair days.