Google now expose Labour and Ofcom secretly implementing impossible new censorship levels

Following Apple and Elon Musk disclosure, Google are now openly locked in argument with Ofcom on their latest censorship attempt that are contrary to previous assurances

The UK government has long been criticised for its increasingly dictatorial behaviour and particularly the tightening of the freedom of expression, trying to become the worlds internet, censorship and thought police.

Now, following on from Apple, the US Government, and multiple US companies with no presence in the UK being dictated to and attempts to be fined by Ofcom, a new row has erupted that sees tech giant Google taking a stand.

A new tier of impossible censorship

At the heart of this latest conflict is the Online Safety Act and the controversial guidance proposed by Ofcom, that is effectively a new tier of censorship by the back door.

In a recent submission to Ofcom’s consultation, Google has accused the UK regulator of attempting to stifle freedom of expression by requiring platforms to monitor and remove content that is in a brand new censorship category - ‘potentially illegal’, whatever that is.

Google’s major concern lies in a measure known as ICUE2, which would force platforms to ensure that content deemed ‘potentially relevant’ to illegal activity is excluded from user feeds before it even goes viral.

Google argues that Parliament deliberately limited the Online Safety Act to specific categories of illegal content and fraudulent ads but Ofcom’s push to target ‘potentially’ harmful content creates a new category of ‘lawful but harmful’ speech that Parliament and MPs specifically denied would happen but within months, here we are trying to control what adults can see.

A blatant attempt to intimidate

How on earth can anyone let alone a social media platform accurately decide what might be illegal before a legal determination is made? This creates an unduly burdensome requirement that forces platforms to over censor to avoid liability, something we believe is exactly what this governments intention was from the start. It’s impossible to effectively police such a loose definition.

Google warns that these measures create significant uncertainty and fundamentally undermine the right to freedom of expression in the digital age. As we have mentioned in previous posts the threat of huge fines and prison time for executives only compounds the threatening and intimidating behaviour by Starmer & Co to tech companies.

As the UK moves closer to these new monitoring requirements, it’s become ever clearer that the UK Government is at war with online platforms that do not support their ideological world view of what is acceptable and not acceptable, and any attempt by users to exercise their free speech or stress test its arguments will be clamped down upon.

We are living in a dictatorship where the government knows whats best for us, allegedly.