by stephen_g
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- 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...
by dwroberts
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- 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)
- 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.
by bad_username
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- In the age of toxic empathy, "think about the children" is a very common tool for nefarious uses.
by justinclift
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- 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.
by iamnothere
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- Of note is that the author of this piece is the attorney defending 4chan et al against Ofcom, hence the slant and the general attitude.
- I'm not in favour of the online safety act, but the problem is she is incredibly stupid - nobody will listen to her.
by kylegordon
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- "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
by JonAtkinson
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- This is RWNJ garbage dressed up in false "think tank" legitimacy.
by dijksterhuis
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- 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.
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