{"id":41720,"date":"2025-08-04T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:05:29","slug":"social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farage accuses government of being \u2018so below the belt\u2019 as right wing doubles down on censorship claims <\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/24\/what-are-the-new-uk-online-safety-rules-and-how-will-they-be-enforced\">Online Safety Act<\/a> has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred or encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders.<\/p>\n<p>But within days of coming into force, the new approach to keeping children safe online had become a rallying point for the right in both Britain and the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/04\/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farage accuses government of being \u2018so below the belt\u2019 as right wing doubles down on censorship claims The UK\u2019s Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred [&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-41720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720","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=41720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}