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UK’s Online Safety Act: A Cautionary Tale for ⁣the US ⁤KOSA Bill

By Jake ⁤Scott

The impacts of a two-year-old law are ⁢finally being⁢ felt in Britain-and, as the United‍ States looks to pass its⁢ own ⁤ Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), it shoudl watch the ⁢unfolding situation with fear.

The Online Safety Act (2023) ⁢was passed by the‍ previous Conservative government under ⁢Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. ⁣But the legislative process began in February 2022, ‍under Sunak’s predecessor-but-two, Boris Johnson. Implementation was delayed for an ⁣extensive period of time, largely due to controversy and logistics surrounding the law. The Office for Communications ⁤(Ofcom) laid⁢ out ⁣a roadmap ⁤for enforcement in October ⁤2024, a full year after the law was passed.

As is usually the case, a law steeped in respectable aims-protecting children from harmful content-has rapidly revealed itself as a nefarious tool of control.

Nobody wants children to view ⁣pornographic content. That is hardly a controversial position. Yet ‍so often the tools of authoritarianism are sold under the guise of protection. The echoes of Benjamin⁤ Franklin’s warning against sacrificing a little‍ liberty for a little temporary⁢ safety ring louder in the internet era; what⁤ was once⁢ the digital Wild West has become sanitized, watched, and⁣ regulated. And lurking behind the existence of the ‍law itself is the question of⁤ who is actually responsible for the content that ⁢children view online-the government,the platforms,or-as seems to have been ⁤forgotten-their⁤ parents?

The Online Safety⁣ Act began with a reasonable goal: requiring‍ platforms ⁤to remove content that was ⁢already illegal, such as ‍child abuse or images that glorify or encourage self-harm. But the‍ rationale, as explained ⁣by the government’s own “Online safety Act Explainer,” was to make Britain “the safest place in the world to be online” by making platforms legally ‍responsible for the⁣ content their users post. Even⁢ at the outset, the practicalities of forcing international corporations to police global content on behalf of a⁤ national government⁢ were pointed out ⁤as practically impossible. Yet the ⁢law quickly transformed into justifying the restraints⁣ on adults in the name of increased transparency.

And when the law partly came⁣ into effect ‍last week, on July 24, the immediate ⁢reaction⁢ both in the UK and abroad focused on the limits⁢ on pornographic content. Major websites such as Pornhub, to the Not safe for Work (NSFW) sections of major‍ forums like Reddit, were affected. These restrictions digitized existing limits of content⁢ via Section 1