Il Regno Unito si respinge l’atto di sicurezza online con il divieto di contenuti autolesionistici
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/selfharm_online_safety_act/
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Il Regno Unito si respinge l’atto di sicurezza online con il divieto di contenuti autolesionistici
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/selfharm_online_safety_act/
di This_Head_7578
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>Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment to the UK’s controversial Online Safety Act.
How is any small website supposed to have a minority report style removal method? Just pushing out small communities to ensure total dominance of the big tech companies online.
OK… What’s next?
I would have thought that a period of analysis would be necessary before expanding this process?
There’s a LOT of self-harm, suicide content/forums online if you know where to look, and this is how the OSA was originally conceptualised to remove this type of objectively harmful content. I’m sure most would agree was a good initiative – but not how it’s been utilised in practice, as a form of digital authoritarianism.
I still can’t help but think how the act is being used fails even in the domain of supporting people who self-harm, as blanket bans on self-harm content may stop supportive and therapeutic resources from reaching the people who need them most.
Any time I hear a Laboour politician speak on the matter, I see how out of touch they are from reality.
So, what, every post someone makes goes into awaiting approval until a mod manually checks it? If I have a Teams meeting with my boss and cut myself on camera does Microsoft get fined?
And I’m sure this won’t have an effect on websites that try to *help* people, right?
Right?
The problem is that a lot of support/recovery groups have also been affected by this act. I know that eating disorder recovery groups have been affected and those will be vital lifelines for a lot of young people, who are going to make up a lot of membership of such groups.
After seeing how easily people are radicalized by AI-boosted information war, it’s easy to see how freedom of expression in the west has been hijacked and exploited by foreign hostile authoritarian states.
oooh the noose starts to tighten.
SORRY YOU CANT ACCESS THIS FOR YOUR SAFETY, stick to approved goverment websites only.
Yaknow what would be actually worthwhile? Dealing with the masses of bots from hostile nations and questionable publications, that are warping our domestic political discourse.
That is actual online safety.
Not be too long till they’re taking away the cat videos and porn
https://youtu.be/AR-sMAI740E?si=A1Cb7vKKWTHVSuTz
Does this therefore mean this song is considered self-harm content? Google the lyrics.
And how does this not put us headfirst into colliding with the USA on freedom of speech?
Just wait until they come for you and your grandmothers recipe for apple crumble because of the harmful sugar guidance found within.
Thats where we are headed, these parasites vying to get their tendrils into every aspect of peoples lives must be voted out.
I was under the impression that this act was to protect children – and IMHO finding a way to shield them from this content would be the first place I started. Instead we had a crusade against masturbation which achieved very little other giving a boost to illegal data harvesting. But it seems that masturbation was more damaging than self-harm.
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I think cookie recipes with >30% sugar could be considered self harm.
After all, you will get obese from it and that is a way for self harm.
So will the UK ban sugary cookie recipes?
I used to struggle with self harm in the past, if it wasn’t for communities talking about it and offering help online and the ability to converse about similar struggles I don’t know where I’d be now. This is prior to being 18, my parents were unaware of this and did actually have a content filter.
I fear that this may wipe out potential support networks for young teens/children who fine self harm an outlet (not a positive thing) and may entrench themselves in this behaviour further. This is not a massive win like it’s made to seem, censoring self harm doesn’t remove self harm.
So basically self harms has been recriminalised after being decriminalised in 2023 don’t talk about bad things and hide everything pretend its all sunshine and happiness
This bill seems a lot like if we brush it under the carpet it doesn’t exist
The peep show epsisode where Mark cuts himself. Would it now be illegal to host this episode online? Because it’s clearly “self harm content”.
What about virtually any other media that depicts self harm?
Do we just have to pretend that horrible things don’t happen anymore?
What is wrong with this government fr man. This is gonna backfire massively. We shouldn’t be hiding these issues from the world its just going to make people suffering with them feel WORSE we should be focusing on them and trying to help them and promoting support groups.
Demonstrating that they can pick and choose what gets banned and when, in case there was any doubts this was entirely about censorship and control.
so anime like Takopi’s Original Sin will get banned?
If someone wants to self harm or end their life, they will do so without websites. As someone who has and does self harm, due to a lack of NHS support, I don’t need a website to tell me how to do these things. Desperate people resort to desperate measures. What I and many others do need is the support websites we frequent which help with grounding yourself. This risks censoring those even more now. Good job, gov.
What you’re doing is alienating people with MH issues by making this even more shameful, and seen as disgusting and not the cry for help and need for better coping mechanisms it is.
I am in NO way suggesting we let sites that promote self harm and ‘show off’ pictures like it’s great, to keep existing. (There are some sites where people will compete to do as much damage as possible and I’ve seen those and they’re distressing) But by saying ‘this is illegal now’ what you’re doing is telling people who DO self harm is they are a problem that needs to be hidden, punished and removed from society and to act as if it’s not real.
Ignoring an issue does not make it go away. It makes the problem much worse.
Yeah, now kids won’t kill themselves on livestreams, they will do it in public again.
Recently discovered through ordering for myself, can buy vapes, with no real age check, and have them arrive through the letterbox by carrier with no sign in.
Further endorses this isn’t about protecting children at all. OSA, utter load of bollocks.
The NHS won’t treat you, but that doesn’t mean the government will let you have a go yourself!
Welp, time for labour to stop children from accessing suicide helplines in order to “save the children” i guess.
You can’t ban this kind of content, it simply doesn’t work and it shows how out of touch these dribbling politicians are. People will still talk about it and just use codewords and euphemisms as we’ve already seen with TikTok changing the way teens speak i.e. suicide now called unalived and rape instead referred to as 🍇
When you start to filter content, people just change the slang they use.
How long do you think it’ll be until the Internet pharmacy sites are targeted?
Shouldn’t have self harm content been the focus before porn ffs
We’ve become a nation of children and ‘vulnerable adults’ who need the government to decide what we can access online, because we can’t think for ourselves. Aside from the freedom of expression consequences to this; this is nationally embarrassing.
Why the fuck aren’t they doing anything about all this full on white supremacist content on Facebook? If anyone thinks I’m exaggerating have a look at a page called “Make Europa Snow”. Facebook seriously told me with a straight fucking face there’s nothing they’re doing against their community standards that’s illegal.