{"id":18152,"date":"2024-08-09T03:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T03:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-after-far-right-riots-says-sadiq-khan-9\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T03:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T03:57:51","slug":"online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-after-far-right-riots-says-sadiq-khan-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-after-far-right-riots-says-sadiq-khan-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Safety Act not fit for purpose after far-right riots, says Sadiq Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: London mayor warns law must be revisited \u2018very, very quickly\u2019 due to falsehoods that contributed to unrest<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/sadiq-khan-on-the-riots-like-a-lot-of-people-of-my-generation-i-felt-triggered\">Sadiq Khan on the riots: \u2018Like a lot of people of my generation, I felt triggered\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laws designed to counter misinformation are \u201cnot fit for purpose\u201d and must be revisited after the spread of online falsehoods contributed to this month\u2019s far-right riots, the mayor of London has said.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan, one of the UK\u2019s most senior Muslim politicians, said ministers should act \u201cvery, very quickly\u201d to review the Online Safety Act after the violent unrest in England and Belfast over the past week. There have been calls to hasten the act\u2019s implementation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/online-safety-act-not-fit-for-purpose-far-right-riots-sadiq-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: London mayor warns law must be revisited \u2018very, very quickly\u2019 due to falsehoods that contributed to unrest Sadiq Khan on the riots: \u2018Like a lot of people of my generation, I felt triggered\u2019 Laws designed to counter misinformation are \u201cnot fit for purpose\u201d and must be revisited after the spread of online falsehoods contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}