The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.

There’s a simple solution:

Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
The government can do this now

The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP

#SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

‘Absurd’

When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out

Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.

It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/apple-encryption-government-press-appeal-tribunal-snoopers-charter/

The Labour Party But not as you knew it John.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/benefit-cuts-labour-mps-disabled-sick

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn

Sign our petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted

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Blogs, forums and fedi instances are facing burdensome duties and penalties imposed by the UK #OnlineSafetyAct.

Despite being small and safely moderated, the Act sweeps them up into the same regime as platforms like Facebook and X. This is overkill, resulting in many shutting down or blocking UK users.

With the duties going live on 17 March, urgent action is required to exempt small sites.

Act NOW to #SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

"This is a significant test for the battle between law enforcement and technology.”

Holding the Apple case in secret makes the legal process more cloak and dagger, less scales and sword.

It makes it harder to challenge the UK government's order to break encryption and creates a dangerous precedent.

This case sets the stage for more shady encryption-breaking orders to be made.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/14/what-could-apples-high-court-challenge-mean-for-data-protection

Make it public!

The call is getting louder for a public hearing of the appeal over the UK's order to break Apple encryption.

Alongside the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship, UK MPs, US Congress Members and the BBC want the secrecy to end.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0rr51gn3o

White folk in Britain should watch Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' series and educate ourselves on how racist our State was/is.

A different sort of Racism from what we see in America, but institutionalised racism all the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/13/mp-calls-for-inquiry-into-labelling-of-black-pupils-as-educationally-subnormal