Shows how laws like the Online Safety Act are starting to reach global platforms. Enforcing national rules on the open internet is never simple.

Ohtis

Seems like we are quickly heading to the place where each nation has its own version of the great Chinese firewall.

A suicide forum linked to deaths in Britain has been ruled provisionally in breach of the Online Safety Act after it failed to properly block access to UK users when ordered to do so last year.

Ofcom, the online regulator, said it could now apply to the courts to demand internet service providers block access to the site in the UK. This will depend on how the site, which also faces fines, responds over the next 10 days.

Politics_And_Law

Seems like we are quickly heading to the place where each nation has its own version of the great Chinese firewall.  

> A suicide forum linked to deaths in Britain has been ruled provisionally in breach of the Online Safety Act after it failed to properly block access to UK users when ordered to do so last year.
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> Ofcom, the online regulator, said it could now apply to the courts to demand internet service providers block access to the site in the UK. This will depend on how the site, which also faces fines, responds over the next 10 days.