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The Online Safety Act's Censorship Engine: How Britain Dressed Up a Regulator's Power Grab as Child Protection

The Online Safety Act's Censorship Engine: How Britain Dressed Up a Regulator's Power Grab as Child Protection

The Online Safety Act is now moving from statute book to operational reality, with Ofcom steadily assuming sweeping powers to compel platforms to remove content deemed harmful — without Parliament defining what harm means. Child protection is a cause nobody serious opposes, but the Act's architecture is something else entirely: a censorship framework that places extraordinary and unaccountable power in the hands of a quango.