- It wasn't the Online Safety Act that blocked this. I am sure it along with its accompanying article is still available un-age restricted on the BBC, unblocked by the Online Safety Act. It was Twitter that blocked it.
- It isn't really a "negative" headline about Labour, it's just what the Labour politician said. I think it's more likely that Twitter decided to block it because it was overall a pro-Palestinian article, than that Labour had anything to do with it. As far as I'm aware of Twitter's management's stance on UK politics I would imagine they love shitting on Labour and censoring things about Palestine.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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Proving, once again, media censorship “for the children” can become whatever your government wants it to be.
That would be true if the article weren't utterly full of shit.
The blocking has nothing to do with the OSA, it's X's internal censorship policies.
The Online Safety Act was introduced by the previous, Conservative government; it does not have a political partisan element to it.
While fundamentally flawed legislation like the OSA is bound to produce chilling effects, I can't really sympathise with the gutter-press journalists at The Canary who can't even tell the truth about the situation: the headline and article aren't "blocked by the act"; they are age-gated by twitter's interpretation of the act. This is not the same thing in the slightest.
Sorry Guv, that political speech belongs to the queen
Something something 1984 communism
Because the UK government has always been about protecting the right of white people to terrorize and murder people of color. Who has committed more terroristic acts during its existence, Hamas, or the UK?