Chris Middleton
@ChrisMid
Independent Journalist | Formerly at the BBC | Creator of Freezing This Christmas • ✍️ @Telegraph @TheCriticMag
🚨 UK’s Online Safety Act just came into effect, promising a “safer” internet. It’s a lie. This law threatens YOUR privacy, free speech, and democracy and paves the way for a surveilled, censored web. Want to know how bad it gets? 🧵
The Mail reports that three "Brits" have been arrested for rape in Croatia. Their names: Ami Arifi, Gezhim Xhafa, and Sohqib Shakibi. How far into the article do you have to get to find out they are actually from Kosovo? The last paragraph.
It's been 24 hours since the Online Safety Act kicked in, and protest footage is already being censored on X. I warned yesterday that the broad brush approach forces companies to err on the side of restricting content to avoid fines. Welcome to the new internet.
🚨 UK’s Online Safety Act just came into effect, promising a “safer” internet. It’s a lie. This law threatens YOUR privacy, free speech, and democracy and paves the way for a surveilled, censored web. Want to know how bad it gets? 🧵
The same government that didn't want an enquiry into child rape gangs wants you to think it is bringing in new online ID laws in order to protect children. This is yet another attack on free speech by this government. I highly recommend you all get a VPN and do not comply.
The wrestler Hulk Hogan has sadly died at the age of 71. Over a 50 year career he helped bring wresting into the mainstream. Thank god we have the BBC to let us know he also once said a bad word.
