Repeal, reform, rewrite?

A Parliamentary petition calling for repeal of the Online Safety Act has reached over 550,000 signatures and is due to be debated on 15 December. The demand for abolition is eye-catching, but inevitably lacks nuance. In any case it is tolerably clear that the petition is aimed not at the entire Act, but at its core: the set of regulatory safety duties imposed on platforms and search engines. Even…