Even Ofcom admits it. Instead of doubling down on further digital prohibition and censorship, it is time for Labour to scrap the Online Safety Act.

Big Tech is using workplace surveillance to silence political dissent and strip workers of their fundamental right to organise. Read more from @openDemocracy ⤵️ opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-…

Age-gating the internet won't dismantle Big Tech's toxic business model - but it will strip away online privacy and security for millions of us. Six reasons why online age verification is a guaranteed policy failure, from @CatoInstitute ⤵️

Compelling people to pay a tax on non-BBC streaming, simply because they chose to watch content online, destroys public trust. Worse still, people shouldn't be forced to finance campaigns designed to discredit political dissent under the guise of "tackling misinformation". Public service broadcasting relies on public consent. When the state decides which political narratives are "trustworthy" - and taxes citizens to subsidise them - it undermines democratic accountability. Read more ⤵️ independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

Ceding the defence of privacy, free speech and civil liberties to the right is a fatal political mistake. The Labour movement's historic tradition is to challenge unaccountable power and stand up for the powerless - not to build a surveillance state. We are fighting for the left to reclaim free expression and champion digital rights. If you feel the same, drop us a message and get involved!🌹

We strongly support the joint letter, coordinated by @mollyroseorg and @IM_org, calling to make media literacy a fundamental life skill in our schools. Digital life is here to stay. Performative bans do not eliminate online harms - but they will leave young people unprepared when they inevitably go online. Locking teens out of the digital public square fails to build resilience or critical thinking. Labour must equip young people to navigate the online world with confidence and caution, while holding Big Tech accountable for their predatory platform designs. Read the full letter here ⤵️ mollyrosefoundation.org/medi…

🚨 Australia’s social media ban failed, so now ministers want your passport to access social media. This escalation just proves what we have been saying since day one: prohibition in the digital age does not work. Mandating ID checks to access social media forces 68 million Brits into a system of digital surveillance. It kills the online anonymity relied upon by journalists, whistleblowers, and vulnerable young people, while handing sensitive identity data to unregulated and unreliable corporate vendors. Worst of all, it lets tech monopolies completely off the hook for their toxic business models. We must defend digital freedom. Read more ⤵️ thetimes.com/article/9a7f374…

This is the textbook creep of safetyism in action. What is sold as a quick fix to protect children inevitably mutates into an authoritarian apparatus for state surveillance and digital control. Turning the state into an arbiter of permissible speech online does nothing to tackle the root cause of digital harm. It leaves Big Tech’s predatory attention economy completely intact while building a censorship regime that will outlast this government. It will force mandatory digital ID checks on the entire population, destroy online anonymity, and create a chilling effect on legitimate democratic dissent. Read more ⤵️ theguardian.com/technology/2…

Who could have guessed? Read more ⤵️ theguardian.com/technology/2…

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