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Posted on 12/24/2025 9:14:52 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Google has accused Britain of threatening to stifle free speech in an escalation of US opposition to online safety rules.
The regulator Ofcom is planning to prevent posts going viral that include “potentially illegal” material, such as hate speech or calls to violence.
However, Google warned that proposals to require tech giants to detect and suppress such “potentially illegal” posts risk “undermining users’ rights to freedom of expression”.
Google said the measures would “necessarily result in legal content being made less likely to be encountered by users, impacting users’ freedom of expression, beyond what the [Online Safety] Act intended”.
Ofcom rejected the claims this weekend, insisting there was “nothing in our proposals that would require sites and apps to take down legal content”.
The clash comes as transatlantic tensions mount over Britain’s approach to free speech. The White House this month suspended talks over the £31bn tech prosperity deal amid frustration about the Online Safety Act.
Donald Trump’s allies have repeatedly criticised Britain’s pioneering legislative attempt to curb abuse and other harms online.
JD Vance, the US vice president, has claimed the UK was following a “dark path” on free expression while Elon Musk’s X has claimed that “free speech will suffer” under the rules.
In its latest proposals, Ofcom said it now wanted to see “potentially illegal” posts removed from so-called recommender systems – such as news feeds – until they have been seen by moderators.
The watchdog said it was concerned about how rapidly posts that fell into a legal grey area could spread. It cited a wave of hate-fuelled posts in the wake of the Southport killings in the summer of 2024 and the riots that followed.
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They object to angry reactions against the Southport massacre.
How soon before Britain fines Google and other American tech companies billions of dollars for this?
That seems to be their main source of revenue now. It certainly isn’t tax dollars raised from all the freeloading muslum immigrants they’re bringing in.
Just pull out of the UK.
Lol. Nobody knows what content is legal or illegal until after the fact.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
And will kill or put into bondage anyone that disagrees with them.
Google is pro censorship. They just object to others controlling what is censored.
Google=naughtZee now? Attack!
You’ll be getting your summons To the King’s Court by mail.
Is Ofcom part of the Minitrue or the Miniluv on Airstrip One?
Well, I’m glad to see Google come full circle and attack government repression of speech rather than working with the FBI and other governments and hiring former government censors to promote it.
Google won’t allow free speech on Youtube.
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