As dumb as the OSA is…are there any documentaries that are blocked?
Statement-Acceptable on
That’s because the Online Safety Act has nothing to do with actually protecting children.
You can still buy zombie knifes online and ship to the UK. You can still watch any porn video you want in the UK. Without a VPN.
fffffffjtrdc on
Amazing how a bunch of old people moaning about the winter fuel payment got the government to backtrack pretty fast but the backlash on something like this that affects the next 60 years of voters gets ignored
No-Drink-8544 on
“Great, we caught those dirty perverts wanking to perfectly legal porn, now make sure to spread the story about the woman who shagged 1000 random men across the media.”
kester76a on
The online safety act seems to be more profit based as the government will outsource it to an American company with plenty of kickbacks.
No_Seesaw1503 on
I like the bit were she lays down on the floor covered in used condoms and tissues post orgy and does snow angels.
Pure class.
HussingtonHat on
Because the safety act has never been ab9ut the children, no matter how much fake hand wringing people do.
EdmundTheInsulter on
I’d imagine they’ll get told to bring in age verification and allow adults to set a pin on their own age verified account or something.
areallyshitusername on
I can’t watch a lion eat a zebra on r/HardcoreNature but I can watch Planet Earth by David Attenborough on BBC iPlayer.
As mentioned, that’s because it’s not about protecting children. It’s about censorship and control.
Diastrous_Lie on
Don’t worry, the follow up show where she ends up with a hyper resistant strain of HIV cum (the latin word…) Ebola will be heavily censored and blocked behind every section of the online safety act
No way did a 1000 guys have no STIs
Pricks in London hook up even when they have penile discharge
DukePPUk on
In her defence, Katie Lam has only been an MP since last year, so she wasn’t around when the Online Safety Act was passed by her predecessors. So maybe she doesn’t understand that the OSA covers *user-to-user services* (i.e. social media) and pornography sites. It doesn’t cover broadcast TV or Video on Demand services, which are regulated under separate schemes.
Ofcom does still regulate Channel 4, including its on-demand services, but not under the OSA provisions.
Fortunately we have responsible journalists, working for high quality newspapers like the Times, who can explain this to the general public and, politely, tell the people they’re getting quotes from why they’re wrong.
Oh, wait…
Also, something to be said about how we have a Shadow Home Secretary who wasn’t even an MP 14 months ago.
No-One-4845 on
Yeah, it’s a documentary on TV, not content on social media. Regardless, there are specific provisions in the OSA around access to journalistic and public interest content.
recursant on
We’ve had TV in this country since 1926. Almost exactly hundred years. During that time it has never been technically feasible to prevent people under 18 from watching certain content, nor has there ever been public pressure to do so.
I am sure this person’s antics have been covered in detail by certain sections of the press, which has been around for even longer than TV. Again there has never been any strong desire to make it impossible for under 18s to be able to read a newspaper.
It has always been up to parents to shield their young children from unsuitable material. And for older children, they probably need to gradually become aware of different aspects of how the world works, as they wind their way to adulthood.
Or is the plan to keep them completely in the dark until their 18th birthday, then dump the whole ugly truth on them in one go?
TBH I grew up when the cold war was in full swing. The idea that the sirens might go off at any moment and we would have 4 minutes until we got vaporised was probably the thing that had the biggest negative effect on me in my early teens. Not the news that some woman had shagged loads of blokes as a publicity stunt.
WritesCrapForStrap on
The OSA doesn’t cover broadcast television, because why would it?
bobblebob100 on
Media are loving this. They dont care about the OSA, but porn articles get clicks
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As dumb as the OSA is…are there any documentaries that are blocked?
That’s because the Online Safety Act has nothing to do with actually protecting children.
You can still buy zombie knifes online and ship to the UK. You can still watch any porn video you want in the UK. Without a VPN.
Amazing how a bunch of old people moaning about the winter fuel payment got the government to backtrack pretty fast but the backlash on something like this that affects the next 60 years of voters gets ignored
“Great, we caught those dirty perverts wanking to perfectly legal porn, now make sure to spread the story about the woman who shagged 1000 random men across the media.”
The online safety act seems to be more profit based as the government will outsource it to an American company with plenty of kickbacks.
I like the bit were she lays down on the floor covered in used condoms and tissues post orgy and does snow angels.
Pure class.
Because the safety act has never been ab9ut the children, no matter how much fake hand wringing people do.
I’d imagine they’ll get told to bring in age verification and allow adults to set a pin on their own age verified account or something.
I can’t watch a lion eat a zebra on r/HardcoreNature but I can watch Planet Earth by David Attenborough on BBC iPlayer.
As mentioned, that’s because it’s not about protecting children. It’s about censorship and control.
Don’t worry, the follow up show where she ends up with a hyper resistant strain of HIV cum (the latin word…) Ebola will be heavily censored and blocked behind every section of the online safety act
No way did a 1000 guys have no STIs
Pricks in London hook up even when they have penile discharge
In her defence, Katie Lam has only been an MP since last year, so she wasn’t around when the Online Safety Act was passed by her predecessors. So maybe she doesn’t understand that the OSA covers *user-to-user services* (i.e. social media) and pornography sites. It doesn’t cover broadcast TV or Video on Demand services, which are regulated under separate schemes.
Ofcom does still regulate Channel 4, including its on-demand services, but not under the OSA provisions.
Fortunately we have responsible journalists, working for high quality newspapers like the Times, who can explain this to the general public and, politely, tell the people they’re getting quotes from why they’re wrong.
Oh, wait…
Also, something to be said about how we have a Shadow Home Secretary who wasn’t even an MP 14 months ago.
Yeah, it’s a documentary on TV, not content on social media. Regardless, there are specific provisions in the OSA around access to journalistic and public interest content.
We’ve had TV in this country since 1926. Almost exactly hundred years. During that time it has never been technically feasible to prevent people under 18 from watching certain content, nor has there ever been public pressure to do so.
I am sure this person’s antics have been covered in detail by certain sections of the press, which has been around for even longer than TV. Again there has never been any strong desire to make it impossible for under 18s to be able to read a newspaper.
It has always been up to parents to shield their young children from unsuitable material. And for older children, they probably need to gradually become aware of different aspects of how the world works, as they wind their way to adulthood.
Or is the plan to keep them completely in the dark until their 18th birthday, then dump the whole ugly truth on them in one go?
TBH I grew up when the cold war was in full swing. The idea that the sirens might go off at any moment and we would have 4 minutes until we got vaporised was probably the thing that had the biggest negative effect on me in my early teens. Not the news that some woman had shagged loads of blokes as a publicity stunt.
The OSA doesn’t cover broadcast television, because why would it?
Media are loving this. They dont care about the OSA, but porn articles get clicks