The new rules came into force last week, requiring platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X, as well as sites hosting ...

The British government has pushed ahead with one of the most contentious age verification mandates to date, despite concerns ...

The move came after Elon Musk’s social media platform X criticised the new law which it described as ‘heavy-handed’.

New legislation designed to protect children from harmful content online has been met with fierce opposition from MPs and ...

Reform UK has pledged to repeal the Online Safety Act, branding the Government’s latest attempt to limit harmful content on ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage acknowledged that his party did not have ‘a perfect answer’ for what could replace the Online ...

Jess Phillips, the Home Office minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, condemned the Reform leader.

Did the most recent, July 2025 version of the 2023 U.K. Online Safety Act prohibit "all criticism" of unauthorized ...

Reform UK has vowed to repeal the Online Safety Act after regulators began to enforce its new age verification powers, decrying the law as a dystopian threat to free speech that would make China’s ...

The summer holidays are known in the news business as the silly season. With parliament in recess and MPs set free with their ...

They told us it was about protecting children. That’s how they always do it. Wrap tyranny in the warm fuzz of “safety”, and ...

The way people in the UK navigate the internet is set to change significantly under the new Online Safety Act, which requires ...