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Britain’s Minister for Northern Ireland preparing major crackdown on social media companies

HERE WE GO 🚨 Britain’s Minister for Northern Ireland is preparing a major crackdown on social media companies to force removal of all content they say “is illegal”

He says anti-immigrant talk causing outrage will no longer be tolerated

(Holy sh*t)

UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland “Social media companies have a very heavy responsibility. It's why we're going to bring forward new powers next week to make it clear that social media companies need to take down illegal content, particularly when we are facing circumstances such as the ones we've seen in Northern Ireland over the last two days”

This is going to be enforced under the Online Safety Act which Hillary Clinton flew over and helped pass

‘Under the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 platforms must proactively assess, mitigate, and rapidly remove “illegal content.”’

Liberals are tyrants and the are going to being mass censorship until the western world is completely overrun with foreigners and conquered

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2065169868039852166

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>>24707364

>UK’s Online Safety Act 2023

TheUK Online Safety Act 2023is a sweeping law designed to regulate online platforms, requiring them to proactively protect children and adults from illegal content, terrorism, fraud, and material harmful to minors.Regulated by Ofcom, the legislation imposes strict age assurance checks, risk assessments, and duties on technology companies under threat of heavy fines. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Core Requirements for Platforms

The Act shifts compliance from a reactive "notice and takedown" model to a proactive duty of care. Obligations vary depending on a platform's size and reach:

• Illegal Content Duties: All service providers must assess and minimize the risk of users encountering illegal materials (e.g., terrorism, child sexual abuse material) and clamp down on fraudulent advertising.

• Protecting Children: Sites likely to be accessed by children must implement highly effective age verification technologies to block access to age-inappropriate and harmful content.

• Adult Safety: Major platforms must offer adult users enhanced transparency and greater control over the types of potentially harmful content they see. [1]

Enforcement and Penalties

The Act isenforced by Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator. Failure to comply with the legislation's duties carries severe consequences, including:

• Financial Penalties: Fines can reach up to £18 million or 10% of a company's global annual revenue, whichever is higher.

• Service Restriction: Courts possess the power to block access to non-compliant services within the UK.

• Executive Liability: Senior management faces potential criminal liability for non-compliance with specific information and reporting requirements. [5, 7]

Implementation and Debate

Because of the breadth and technical difficulty of assessing millions of internet users, Ofcom utilizes a phased approach to bring the Act's codes of practice into full force. [3, 7]

While the UK government states the intention is to make the UK the "safest place in the world to be online", the legislation has faced fierce criticism from digital rights groups. Privacy advocates argue that strict age-verification mandates compromise user anonymity and that the requirements to monitor communications threaten to break end-to-end encryption protocols. [5, 6, 7, 8]

For official updates, guidance documents, and regulatory timelines, you can review the full Online Safety Act 2023 Explainer published by the UK government. [8, 9]

AI response

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer

[2] https://www.techpolicy.press/tracker/online-safety-act-2023/

[3] https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/uk-online-safety-act-becomes-law

[4] https://www.lw.com/admin/upload/SiteAttachments/UK-Online-Safety-Act-2023.pdf

[5] https://itif.org/publications/2025/06/09/uk-online-safety-act/

[6] https://www.linklaters.com/insights/blogs/digilinks/2025/september/uk-the-online-safety-act-2023-the-landscape-two-years-on

[7] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/no-uks-online-safety-act-doesnt-make-children-safer-online

[8] https://www.wsgr.com/a/web/vExo8JtW6yDSp7K3qt6qzX/online-safety-act.pdf

[9] https://www.moneysupermarket.com/news/guide-to-the-online-safety-act/

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