ORG UK are objecting to the UK government's proposed Online Safety
Bill; there's a petition [1] and they say:

"the appointment of a state speech regulator - appointed and directed
by government - will create a sprawling bureaucracy of speech police.
The Home Office and the DCMS will direct what speech must be removed,
filtered and monitored... the Bill’s provisions to block websites,
apps, or services which refuse to cooperate with the speech
regulator’s orders could put household names like Wikipedia, Reddit
and Tumblr in the crosshairs"

Does WMF have a position on this? Has there been any contact with ORG?
[I've put the same question to WMUK, separately]

[1] https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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