{"id":41526,"date":"2025-07-29T01:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/reform-uk-vows-to-repeal-borderline-dystopian-online-safety-act-13\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T01:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:04:56","slug":"reform-uk-vows-to-repeal-borderline-dystopian-online-safety-act-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/reform-uk-vows-to-repeal-borderline-dystopian-online-safety-act-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK vows to repeal \u2018borderline dystopian\u2019 Online Safety Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf say they would find other ways to protect children online but admit they don\u2019t know how<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK has promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would instead make the UK \u201ca borderline dystopian state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Westminster billed as discussing crime, Nigel Farage and his close aide Zia Yusuf instead spent much of the time discussing the act, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/24\/what-are-the-new-uk-online-safety-rules-and-how-will-they-be-enforced\">came into force<\/a> last week, and particularly its approach towards social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/28\/reform-uk-vows-to-repeal-borderline-dystopian-online-safety-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf say they would find other ways to protect children online but admit they don\u2019t know how Reform UK has promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that measures intended to push social media companies to limit false and potentially harmful content would instead make the UK \u201ca borderline dystopian [&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-41526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526","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=41526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}