This episode, we're pulling back the layers on the UK’s Online Safety Act—a law that claims to protect the public but is structurally designed to control speech, break encryption, and export a new censorship model worldwide.
From forced compliance filters to encryption backdoors disguised as “safety features,” we explore how this law sets a dangerous precedent—not just for the UK, but for every country watching closely.
Topics Covered:
The Trojan Horse of “Online Safety” – How regulation is being weaponized to control digital speech
Why the Act’s definition of “legal but harmful” content is a censorship loophole
The encryption backdoor debate and the illusion of client-side scanning as a privacy solution
How Big Tech will normalize these compliance systems globally
The chilling effect on journalism, whistleblowers, and dissent
What you can actually do—mindset shifts, practical privacy tools, and pushing back against passive consumption
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