Western Countries Passing Online Safety Bills Already Inspiring Human Rights Crackdowns
Multiple western countries have been pushing bills supposedly aimed at cracking down on harmful content. Human rights are already targeted.
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https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=27148
Even someone from the (who have shown themselves to be useless when it comes to digital rights) U.N. wrote to the U.K. to tell them the OSB violates human rights.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-freedom-of-opinion-and-expression/comments-legislation-and-policy The U.K. didn't even bother to respond.
Honestly though, these bills themselves are a violation of human rights, and if you're thinking of bills which kill or oppress people, I think these bills could have an equivalent effect, yes.
All these people think about is some nebulous notion of "safety" that some morally bankrupt lobbyist (probably some "white knight") has pushed, not vulnerable people who have to rely on the Internet (and get hit in the name of "safetyism").
@olives Thanks for adding some extra context. I've been more or less just scrambling to keep up with the domestic digital fights here in Canada and haven't really had the resources to cover the insanity going in other countries as much as I would've liked to.
Yes, I personally think that all three examples have the ability to oppress otherwise legal speech and undermine human rights. Even when one thinks that their government won't do it, other gov'ts can take over and abuse such laws too.