UK’s “Online Safety Act” OFFICIALLY grants MSM permission to publish lies
Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN.
Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison…
…unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally fine.
Think even the corrupt & bloated criminal class that rules over us would never dare be that blatant?
Take a look at section 179 making it illegal to publish false information with intent to cause harm:
…and then look at section 180, which exempts all MSM outlets from this new law :
…and that’s without even getting into OfCom’s “select committee”, or how they choose to define “misinformation” (s. 152)
Welcome to the modern definition of “freedom of speech”, where the MSM are directly and explicitly permitted to “knowingly publish false information with intent to cause non-trivial harm”, and you can be sent to jail for a year for calling out their lies.
Oh, and it looks like our friends across the pond might not be far behind. The Big Tech Senate hearings started yesterday, and social media executives are already throwing their support behind the new “Kids Online Safety Act”.
With the EU’s own Digital Services Act coming into force later this month, and all the focus on “misinformation and disinformation” at Davos two weeks ago, we can see the real crackdown on internet free speech is about to kick into gear.
Good times.
For a more in-depth break down of what exactly the “Online Safety Act” is and how it works, you can read our article from last September.
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First time commentator.
Hello all.
One solution would be to look after the alt bloggers.
The end of April fools day…..
Orwell was a Brit right?
2024 – only 40 years off for the UCK with 1984, not bad.
Thinking about this, this is genuinely interesting.
When you think about it, every time a media organization says ‘Israel says…’ or ‘According to Israel…’ they know they are openly repeating lies. Obviously, such fake ‘reporting’ should not be allowed. That sentence should read ‘the lying zionists say…’ or ‘according to the zionists, who habitually lie…’.
However, it isn’t just the controlled media saying this nonsense. It would be interesting to see private prosecutions attacking any non “recognised news publishers” who repeat the zionist lies.
What is wrong with these insane psychopaths?
Sinister.
Though I think they might have a hard time prosecuting “offenders”, given criteria (b) & (c) — how can they prove knowing deception and intent to harm?
No comment. Best play safe.
“A person commits an offence if—(b) the message conveys information that the person knows to be false”…
Seems very hard to prove, actually. However, I have full confidence in the degree of corruption of judges. A good thing our rulers make such laws because it just proves how utterly desperate they are. Only a complete nut case would consider drafting such a piece of drivel and dare call it “legislation.”
Understand that the process is the punishment, regardless of the ultimate outcome.
World governments learned this lesson from their Covid 19 censoship of free speech and freedom of assembly. They learned that they could get away with anything in the name of “safety.”
Courts recently ruled that Trudeau’s crushing of the trucker’s protests was unconstitutional, but tell that to those whose bank accounts were frozen.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/25/covid-inquiry-bbc-misrepresented-risk-pandemic/
I’m surprised this was allowed to be published.
Nothing that most of us already knew though.
Why would that be surprising in any way? It’s about as typical as a limited hangout can get. Telling a tiny bit of truth within an otherwise unnoteworthy retelling of a false narrative releases some pent-up pressure. Tell the public that “mistakes were made” to avoid having a critical mass be able to connect enough dots to figure out that the whole dog-and pony show was a pre-planned operation. Throw the BBC under the bus to avoid attention being directed at the government or the medical profession.
The point you are missing is that the BBC knowingly and willingly spread fear and misinformation, but they will be held unaccountable for their actions, especially now this new act of parliament has been passed.
Like I said this is nothing new for most of us.
In other words, the mainstream, legacy media can continue to be the government/ruling class propaganda conduits they have been for decades given that it is our governments/politicians who are the largest purveyors of lies/false information on the planet.
Define “recognised news publisher”. This loophole might be broad enough for OffG and any independently “recognised” publisher of news.
A bit like “mandatory masks” that were not.
Doesnt matter. Their rules are meaningless drivel. Acts of parliament apply only to legal entities, i.e., your fictional ALL CAPS/titled name. Our government is a corporation with a DUNS number, our legal identity is also a corporation. Our fictional identity is not us, the trustee of our fiction is the crown. As the beneficiary of our estate, we cannot be charged, fined, brought to court, or imprisoned, once we understand this fact we are free. The Clearfield Doctrine of 2008 created a corporate government, removing its sovereign status. In other words, our government has the same rights as McDonalds. To create the illusion of control legal trickery and threats are used. Remember the court, police, and government are all corporations, there for profit, they can only do business with other corporations i.e., your fiction. Refuse your fictional identity and they have no power.
That’s right, but when you need identification to buy anything you’ll be a corporation doing commerce
Won’t work in the UK, the courts don’t accept it
No court on earth accepts the nonsense of sovcit freaks. Very dodgy organizations spread this c**p so they can con people into setting themselves up to be murdered.
They write/ break the rules as it suits them. Case in point, the whole Covid sham…
This is less ominous compared to the earlier UK law, circa 2021, that explicitly authorises criminal acts by several government departments.
Yes the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Act which allows such bodies as the Department of Health, the Food Standards Agency, the HMRC, and the Gambling Commission to use undercover agents to commit murder, torture and rape in the course of their duties!
the US president joe biden posted this on X:
no lies or misinformation there!
No, a law with respect to lying which allows for such exceptions is fundamentally unjust and basis for more tyranny and corruption. Here is the solution: There can be no “rule of law” unless there is equality under the law. Without equality under the law there can be no justice. There can be no equality under the law unless there is equality to the truth. In law, the truth comes down to the discernable facts resulting from efforts of the court to separate partisan and outside interests from the facts in the process. Where, for instance, the judges are selected, or any interest other than discerning or selecting the facts is corrupted by interests, and especially by what we call “political interests” then that judge and system can fairly called “corrupt”. In science, it is essentially the same process. We refrain from imposing our value judgments or interests as far… Read more »
“When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.” Former US President, Harry S. Truman”
― John Hamer, The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality
“It’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN.”
But that’s always been the case, as mainstream media news commentators can pull any fabricated facts out of their “arse” and never be held accountable as long it supports the official national security state narrative.
“It’s now official government policy” is the point
there is a measurable cognitive decline in the general population following a couple of years of induced hysteria.
this kind of new laws prove the cognitive decline is FAR MORE WORSE among our rulers, the lawmakers.
(and we are going to keep voting for them, right?)
Is print media affected? Whitney Webb recently said that a return to print might be in order, as well as investing more in local communities and the real world around us.
Actually,the govt will have to take a publisher/jourmo to court and prove that lies have been published, thus presenting us with an opportunity to challenge the govt. Let’s see…
which court?
Well I assume a court of law, unless of course the state plans some kind of Star Chamber but I assume that this law if actually used, will be challenged but who knows? If this site, or mine or the dozens of other, independent sites are charged, there will be repercussions.
i.e., there is NO Covid-19. Prove us wrong.
Which is a cost most can’t afford but tax payer funded / corporate news outlets can. And we’ve seen how biased the courts are. The state always wins.
A “democratic” government is generally concerned about its image (illusion). It monitors the perception of and public interest in selective or light-touch prosecution closely. Sometimes, the judge gets the order to sound democratic.
That is why it is ever more important to boycott the MSM in its entirety. If they print lies ad nauseam, but no-one reads them, listens to them, watches them, they will have zero influence upon society.
It is only by the people listening to such garbage that a minority will be duped into believing them.
Anyone who thinks that Katherine Viner of the Guardian is some moral arbiter of truthfulness is off with the fairies. She is a Gauleiter of top-down info-nazism. Nothing more and nothing less.
The BBC are no better, nor are the Daily Telegraph. The level of lies printed about Ukraine the past three years in the DT is quite unbelievable: it’s one hundred times worse than Pravda was in 1970s Soviet times.
The mains have a good news only platform, they do not permit themselves to be the bearer of bad news until the very bitter end.
This is why there is so little time to prepare for the worse, there is no early warning system, just a fire brigade to put out the most recent fire.
But with more fires the system gets strained until finally the mains come out and explain or find the explainer, and the whole thing starts all over again.
A license to “do” propaganda
Speechless.
Repeal Section 180
Same shit different century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press
Onward Truther soldiers, marching as to war,
With a year in prison looming to the fore.
“Justice comes from the barrel of a gun” — Mao
Disease X seems like an engineered plan as corporate media blasts headlines about “next pandemic” causing “20 times” more death than convid.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=281173
Looks like more atrocity propaganda on the way.
In this world of our reality, our only right, the only law, is to fight for our lives and our livelihood. And we have to fight when required, when other tell us different. No one has the right to stop you from doing the rightnthing for us to live and prosper. No one has the right from stop us from saying whatever we wish to say. It’s either them or us become redundant when restrictions get installed. They aren’t legitimate rulers, we are all One. Everything else is fictional social construct, lies and propaganda to fool you and me, make us docile, while they usurp their powers through meaningless laws, and those who are able to organise and able to gather others to their cause are the winners who will survive and possibly rule. This beautiful Gaia is a reality of survival within a pride, a pack, a flock, a… Read more »
None of this matters anymore. A.I. will take care of all these problems. All news, sports articles, travel stories, cooking and entertainment pieces will be written by A.I. There will be no need to employ human writers, even editors. Even now, thousands of journalists have been liberated, made free from the drudgery of employment. As far as the general public posting anything at all anywhere on the internet, all such posts can now be moderated and adjusted by A.I. in real-time and instantly rendered safe and abiding of all editorial and narrative policy requirements thus removing any risk of falling foul of the law. Even photos and videos posted can be sanitised by A.I. Scenes made more attractive. Dialogue corrected, and reality improved. Enhanced. Soon, and I mean very soon, there will be no more bad wars. Nations, and everyone will be seen to rally around the threats that concern… Read more »
Soon the wonders of A.I. will be employed to rewrite everything that has ever been uploaded to the online universe to reflect a more appropriate and safe version of the past.
Very good! People whining about infringement on free speech should think twice and, in fact, welcome these laws. If there is a problem in the world today, it’s the consumption of information manure. People live their lives through shit disseminated into their utterly fucked up skulls via their mobile phones. The more draconian censure becomes, the more people – who are actually not as fucking stupid as they appear – will turn away from conduits of doctored information horseshit. Instead, they’ll turn toward whatever surrounds them, the local life, they’ll tune out and defend their local and personal interests as opposed to following the globalist narrative. Hence, the more the better. The faster this house of cards crumbles, the sooner something else can be built from the ashes. Reportedly, people in the Second World used to use newspapers – which were about as full of shit as today’s mainstream media… Read more »
Looks like the exploitable loophole is becoming an “on-demand programme services provider,” whatever that is (I know it refers to platforms like Netflix but not the legal definition per se). Then you can do or say whatever you want.
Might be worth looking into for anyone considering setting up the modern version of a “pirate radio” station, especially since it does NOT require registering with the British government AND you can broadcast over the internet.
That’s an interesting point. YouTube could be classed as an on-demand service, where people view your content only if they click on it, so the viewer becomes responsible for consuming your
misinformationtruth.Or maybe that clause protects YouTube, while you can be nobbled for your content on it.
“Welcome to the Outer Limits. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical…..”
So if it no longer matters if a recognized journalist answers that 2+2 is 3, 4 or 5, it no longer matters for me to know the journalist’s answer. Fact is, even if the journalist answers the question of 2+2 correctly it does not matter to me, because I don’t need a journalist to answer questions for me. I also wonder if the document provides a definition of ‘recognized journalist’. I mean, what is it? I would be interested to know the exact definition, because then you know who, according to the document, is allowed to lie with a straight face as if it’s the truth. Knowing the compilers of such documents, it’s probably defined by weasel words. Anyway… In covid time the definition of recognized scientist was those who were able to repeat the official lie. That’s probably also the definition of recognized journalist: those who are able to… Read more »
Redundant for you and me, maybe… Not for the majority of TV addicts.
is this how the government supposedly want to regain the public trust after the Covid Fiasco?
Yes – the Convid plan fell apart because too many people were seeing contradictory evidence in the independent media which, combined with the evidence of their own eyes and their memories, disintegrated the narrative.
Solution? Reach for the Solomon Asch Theory.
Ultimately it’s useful because it offers clear-as-day proof that the media is part of the corporate-state nexus.
Speaking of free speech, I made a comment on a Yahoo news article tonight – “US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack”. I made a comment that said simply, “Another illegal war, another day”. I then received an email that said: “Your comment on “US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack” violates the community guidelines and has been rejected.” I made another comment: “War P I G S (yahoo won’t let me say THAT! – I guess Yahoo never heard of Black Sabbath)”, after one where I simply said “War Pigs”, both also rejected with matching emails.
We are there. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.
(As I await to see if my comment is published on OffGuardian “pending review”)
Off topical:
What 2000 lb bombs dropped on refugee camps couldnt do
mass starvation will achieve…
While all are distracted by Israel’s sudden eagerness to
agree to a Cease Fire & Prisoner Swap, Israel has put in
place its intention of using mass starvation to replace carpet
bombing to ethnically cleanse Palestine of those it calls
nonhuman beasts and animals…
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/israels-starvation-strategy
If we have a free press then there is no such thing as a ‘recognised news publisher’. Someone needs to sue on this issue.
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Aye aye, Tone, why diss Skem. Ya twat.
id like to see them try an prove somthing is fake news in a ccourt of law i dont think they thought this through een if they obtained a coniction theres no way conviction could be thought as safe and theres a good chance it would be overturned plus the number pf people they would have to bring to court would clog up the courts
The point is intimidation and self-censorship. They always prefer that people do the harm to themselves.
this ccant be enforced if we all ignore cant lock us all up if they try just draws more attention to what wear saying and it ould be great chance to have the things we are saying heard in open court
You anti-globalist numpties and all your silly conspiracy theories about ‘big government’! Don’t you know that the real problem here is people trolling Marianna Spring? ‘Why do you hate me?’ the poor woman asks plaintively. Our rights end where her feelings begin.
That is actually very hilarious. If true, it reads like satire. “A recognized news publisher cannot commit an offense”. I mean, who are they trying to kid? It just keeps getting better.
Even if they lie, it can’t be a lie because they can’t commit an offense. Therefore, it is impossible for a “recognized news publisher” to lie. Wait, I’m an American (I’ll admit), is this a Monty Python thing?
No lie, just in your face, as in “What are you going to do about it”. Always remember the treacherous legislators.
monty python is a documentary on how this material plane really ticks
“I’m not opprssing you Stan. You haven’t got a womb”.
That reminds me, I need to buy a fish licence for my pet halibut
The MSM has long been a sheltered workshop for Trash, Trivia and Tripe.
Truth, on the other hand, lives in the human heart. And it can never, ever be erased.
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Reading between the lines it looks like you need a license from HM Government to report any kind of news or opinion. I think these are issued by OfCom in the UK these days (broadcast licenses are at least) so I’d guess that all that means is that MinTruth has been downgraded from a ministry to a department. Obviously you can still publish and be damned but you will be damned — I’d guess they’ll only jail the high profile cases, everyone else will be bankrupted through civil penalties. Regular readers will know that I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories and what-have-you but I am a free speech absolutist — “I don’t like what you’re saying but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”. But it was nice while it lasted. (Incidentally, one of the other little tweaks not mentioned in this article is that… Read more »
You are so totally awesome for thinking that people don’t get together to organise things to their advantage, often at the expense of the many and occasionally in ways that are not entirely legal, or made legal. Mentioning this propensity to be naive, or conditioned, is definitely a virtue that one should never miss especially if is pointless to do so. Only nut jobs express their speculations of nefarious goings-on. Conditioning and programming really does work. Baaa baaaa.
Your conspiracy theory about encryption is a good one, though, and is very believable and most likely completely true. My conspiracy theory on this subject tells me that there is no effective encryption, that it has already been overcome in those areas where privacy matters.
Who actually believes that end to end encryption is a thing anymore? Do you trust that claim?
1984.
Immunity from prosecution for the MSM.
Immunity from prosection for Big pharma.
Tyrants, criminals & charlatans…
They can’t imprison everyone F..k ’em.
15 minute cities says they can.
Cowards like you maybe.
I’m anything but, Dear Watson.
But since you could only throw a lame comment like that my way I will assume there is nothing you can do to escape the planned gulag.
Perhaps if you complain more it’ll go away.
I’ve been wondering about where alt media platforms have their servers…
Are there any countries where such blatant censorship does not occur?
How would it impact the fascist-communist new censorship laws or the publishers of information if the platform servers were located in a non-censoring country?
Note also the portion 179, $3, which removes the necessity to prove any intent to cause harm, if more than one person is likely to read the message. Which would presumably affect any published article or comment in a public forum. “… (3)In a case where several or many individuals are a likely audience, it is not necessary for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) that the person intended to cause harm to any one of them in particular (or to all of them)…” From the point of view of a prosecution, that would still leave the proving of the spreading of “information that the person knows to be false”. Which doesn’t actually seem that easy, since most people would (presumably) at least post what they believe to be true at the time, or could easily claim that they did. So as long as you believe what you write (or at… Read more »
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Judges are carefully screened and nurtured before appointment. If a judge applied basic principles of justice, gibberish laws like the subject Act would would get nowhere. “Influencing” the judiciary is the easiest, followed by the legislature.