The Online Safety Act: guardian of free speech?

A blogpost headed “The Online Safety Act: A First Amendment for the UK” lacks nothing in shock value. The one thing that we might have thought supporters and critics alike were agreed upon is that the Act, whether for good or ill, does not – and is certainly not intended to – enact the US First Amendment. If anything, it is seen as an antidote to US free speech absolutism. We might even be tempted…