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(Reclaim The Net) – British Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose has proposed an addition to the U.K.’s controversial internet censorship bill, dubbed “The Online Safety Bill,” which continues to get even more Orwellian with each new proposed amendment.
Like something out of dystopian fiction, Penrose, the Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare, has proposed that the government forces online platforms to maintain a score of how truthful a person is, determined by their past statements.
See the proposed amendments here.
“The purpose of this section is to reduce the risk of harm to users of regulated services caused my (sic) disinformation or misinformation,” the proposal states, with a typo that shows just how much care goes into the wording of legislation that wipes away citizens’ freedoms.
The proposal says that every user who produces online content, including “comments and reviews” and who receives a certain number of online views, which is to be determined by the U.K. communications regulator, should have their content indexed
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