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Leopard2023
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- Sep 24, 2023
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Now that the online safety bill has been passed, is it illegal for me to use this site, or is it legal as long as the site is up?
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Do as you like, it's a free country, you are not doing anything wrong.Now that the online safety bill has been passed, is it illegal for me to use this site, or is it legal as long as the site is up?
When did it become illegal?Its illegal to communicate how to kill yourself online, or platform such a thing, its not illegal to consume it I think
That depends on your interpretation of the law, the recent law makes the definition of online harms encompass more things I think. So it was always illegal to harm someone onlineWhen did it become illegal?
Do as you like, it's a free country, you are not doing anything wrong.
It depends what you mean by 'use'.Now that the online safety bill has been passed, is it illegal for me to use this site, or is it legal as long as the site is up?
One person's idea of what is harmful may be another person's idea of what is helpful. How horrible that governments are the thought police, dictating what people can and can't read.That depends on your interpretation of the law, the recent law makes the definition of online harms encompass more things I think. So it was always illegal to harm someone online
See the movie Fahrenheit 451, that's the temperature books burn at, mass government book burnings.What part of the 1984 playbook are they gonna pull out next? Vaporisation? Labour camps (if that didn't happen yet)? Room 101?
Illegal content
- promoting or facilitating suicide
- promoting self harm