Index on Censorship: UK Internet Regulation Plans ‘Catastrophic for Free Speech’

Index on Censorship: UK Internet Regulation Plans ‘Catastrophic for Free Speech’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (2nd L) during the State Opening of Parliament in London, on May 11, 2021. Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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Index on Censorship has become the latest free speech organisation to lambast the UK government’s Online Safety Bill, describing it as “catastrophic.”

The draft bill aims to protect adults and children from both illegal and legal “harms” online, and has been described by both critics and supporters as the most ambitious attempt to regulate the internet in the free world.
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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