Just over 550,000 people signed a petition calling for the repeal of the Online Safety Act, prompting a debate on Monday in a mostly-empty Westminster Hall.

Not content with policing the online speech of its own citizens, there are concerns that the UK government is now attempting to censor the rest of the world. Last week, Sarah Rogers, the U.S.

Under the rules of the UK's Online Safety Act, websites with adult or sensitive content operating in the UK must now take comprehensive steps to verify the ages of their users. It's a law that has ...

On Friday, the UK Government rolled out new measures first introduced with the Online Safety Act 2023 that requires services to verify users' ages to access certain content. Over the weekend, a ...

If you live in the UK, the way you access the internet is about to fundamentally change. A new law, the Online Safety Act, comes into force on 25 July and will see a broad range of online providers ...

The United Kingdom is now fully enforcing its Online Safety Act, which was passed by Parliament in 2023. The law calls for shielding all users from illegal content with special protections for ...

The debate comes as a petition to repeal the bill got 500K signatures, focusing on controversial provisions around age ...

The UK Online Safety Act (OSA) came into force last Friday after years in the works – but some games companies have struggled to comply with the act's strict terms. "We’ve seen a number of small and ...

The UK’s Online Safety Act became law in October 2023 with the aim to enhance online safety for all internet users, particularly children, by placing obligations on service providers that either host ...

Earlier this month, the United Kingdom rolled out the Online Safety Act, which is meant to force any platform or website that could feasibly host adult content to include some sort of age verification ...