Hi all,

Have been in touch with the WMF and ORG on this in the past months asking about this. Current status is that the WMF took the lead and will  prepare a submission document for the UK government. They are working with WMUK and keep us from the FKAGEU a.k.a. wikimedia.brussels in the loop, which I am grateful for.

On a more general note, we can already observe that Brexit in practice means more work on most policy files. This is because the UK government seems to work in parallel to the EU legislator on many issues. If the EU does something on content moderation, so will the UK. If the EU does something on digital markets, so will the UK. To be fair, France and Germany do something similar by trying to "pre-transpose" parts of future EU laws in order to set a trend.

Cheers,
Dimi



На чт, 2.09.2021 г. в 20:22 ч. Owen Blacker <owen@openrightsgroup.org> написа:
For what it's worth, this is the first I've heard of it, as both a member of ORG's Advisory Council and a member of this email list 😕


Ar Iau, 2 Medi 2021 am 16:47 Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ysgrifennodd:
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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