Hi all, Have been in touch with the WMF and ORG on this in the past months asking about this. Current status is that the WMF took the lead and will prepare a submission document for the UK government. They are working with WMUK and keep us from the FKAGEU a.k.a. wikimedia.brussels in the loop, which I am grateful for.
On a more general note, we can already observe that Brexit in practice means more work on most policy files. This is because the UK government seems to work in parallel to the EU legislator on many issues. If the EU does something on content moderation, so will the UK. If the EU does something on digital markets, so will the UK. To be fair, France and Germany do something similar by trying to "pre-transpose" parts of future EU laws in order to set a trend. Cheers, Dimi На чт, 2.09.2021 г. в 20:22 ч. Owen Blacker <[email protected]> написа: > For what it's worth, this is the first I've heard of it, as both a member > of ORG's Advisory Council and a member of this email list 😕 > > > Ar Iau, 2 Medi 2021 am 16:47 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > ysgrifennodd: > >> ORG UK are objecting to the UK government's proposed Online Safety >> Bill; there's a petition [1] and they say: >> >> "the appointment of a state speech regulator - appointed and directed >> by government - will create a sprawling bureaucracy of speech police. >> The Home Office and the DCMS will direct what speech must be removed, >> filtered and monitored... the Bill’s provisions to block websites, >> apps, or services which refuse to cooperate with the speech >> regulator’s orders could put household names like Wikipedia, Reddit >> and Tumblr in the crosshairs" >> >> Does WMF have a position on this? Has there been any contact with ORG? >> [I've put the same question to WMUK, separately] >> >> [1] >> https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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