Are you based in the UK? Please read this!

As many of you will probably be aware by now, the Online Safety Act has come into effect and in one day has demonstrated how terribly it has been implemented and gives us an insight into the scary future we could face.

On social media sites like Reddit and X/Twitter, UK residents will be waking up to a feed not just devoid of adult content, but devoid of anything involving violence, drugs, war or any similar topic. This includes news articles on these topics. The reasoning for this right now is because most websites do not have the resources, or simply do not care to take the drastic and time intensive methods to comply with these new laws so instead they are just slapping a blanket ban on EVERYTHING they deem 18+ or Not Safe For Work (NSFW).

The problem is, even in a fantasy land where all the websites do comply and work to censor only adult content, where does this act end? What stops a future political party deeming lgbt as "adult"? Or saying that some ideas that oppose their own could be harmful to children and then adding that to the online safety act? This is a slippy authoritarian path we are heading down and I urge you to consider signing this petition to have the government repeal the Online Safety Act so it can be rebuilt from the ground up to actually protect children, rather than push them towards harmful unregulated sites while also jeopardising the privacy of adults.

UK residents can sign it here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

It is already well over the 100,000 target to have it debated in parliament but that does not mean you shouldn't sign it! The more signatures it has tells our government just how many people oppose this idiotic act.

p.s. The new video with Sammi is uploading to Vimeo right now and seems to be stuck in the "optimising" phase right at the end. It's been there for about 40 minutes so I may have to restart the upload. Seeing as I'm about to head out to work this one might be an evening upload unfortunately.