The UK's Online Safety Act has singularly failed to regulate the Internet. One by one, U.S. websites are just walking away instead of complying. Every landing page like this redpills thousands of UK Internet users on the UK's censorship regime, and nudges them towards VPNs.

Gab, Kiwi Farms, Sanctioned-suicide, now 4Chan - all received enforcement notices, all of them went "lol," IP banned the entire island and changed nothing The Online Safety Act is so onerous that it makes more sense to just ignore the country than market to it

lol no it can’t. The UK’s censorship regime ends exactly 12 miles off the British coast.

The Online Safety Act’s success depends on everyone playing into the UK’s delusion that it has any power whatsoever to regulate speech on a global basis, which it does not. The UK govt knows it, the entire Internet knows it, Americans especially know it. Not many dare to say it

The UK will effectively have two internets going forward. One will be for low IQ types who are content to watch shadow puppets on the walls of the cave forever The other will be over VPN and Tor for those who want to see what the rest of the world thinks w/o censorship

So the main thrust of the UK Online Safety Act kicks in today. So far, however, every attempt by the UK to enforce it - vs four separate US social websites - has resulted in the websites flipping the UK the bird and IP blocking the country. Not very successful

For media types: the UK tried to make Gab, Kiwi Farms, Sanctioned-Suicide, and now 4chan to censor their users. Formal orders, all that. In each case, the UK didn’t use international treaty procedures to serve the demands properly, and the demands were quite lawfully refused

Ofcom’s legal orders are of no force or effect on persons who have no UK nexus unless they’re domesticated locally. In the U.S., where most of the Internet is based, no court would ever enforce the Online Safety Act - because the First Amendment constitutionally bars it

Ofcom’s legal orders have no effect on Americans unless they’re domesticated locally in the U.S. In the U.S., where most of the Internet is based, no court would ever enforce the Online Safety Act - because the First Amendment forbids it.

The Online Safety Act will thus wind up being a voluntary law which really only applies to companies who think the UK market is worth marketing to and/or keeping boots on the ground in a local subsidiary Many Americans will decide that it isn’t worth it