UK's New Tech Law Sparks Online Safety Controversy and Increased Age Checks
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The UK's new Online Safety Act, aimed at protecting minors from harmful content, has led to widespread content restrictions on international platforms, prompting backlash, legal challenges, and increased use of VPNs, highlighting tensions between online safety regulations and free speech.
- The UK’s new tech law triggers upheaval Politico
- UK online safety law leads to 5m extra age checks a day for pornography sites The Guardian
- Spotify threatens to delete accounts that fail age-verification The Telegraph
- VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in BBC
- Hundreds of thousands of people backlash against internet safety rules Sky News
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