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Open Rights Group<p>"No matter your age, the [UK] Online Safety Act will restrict the content available to you online.”</p><p>“Adults are being forced to hand over information to unregulated age verification providers in order to get the uncensored version of social media apps such as X, Reddit and Bluesky.”</p><p>🗣️ ORG's Sara Chitseko.</p><p><a href="https://theface.com/society/online-safety-act-palestine-young-voters-democracy-uk-politics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theface.com/society/online-saf</span><span class="invisible">ety-act-palestine-young-voters-democracy-uk-politics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafety</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/osa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osa</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageverification</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freedomofexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofexpression</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK Online Safety Act is creating an information desert.</p><p>Young people in the dark. Adults treated like kids unless they sacrifice privacy. Public debate neutered.</p><p>How do you square lowering the voting age to 16 with this lack of trust and widespread censorship?</p><p>Write to your MP ⬇️ </p><p><a href="https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openrightsgroup.org/tel</span><span class="invisible">l-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafety</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/osa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osa</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageverification</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freedomofexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofexpression</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Gee , do you think everyone is using VPNs now? /s</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p>What stunningly useless reporting by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a></p><p>Pornhub use is down by 1m users after <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> age checks.</p><p>So, hurray, that's 1m under 18s kept from illegal content? We don't know</p><p>Or, that's 1m users routing through another country site via VPN? BBC didn't bother with that analysis</p><p>Or, does this align w gov plan? Who knows, there's no gov quote - just anon critics' theory of what may happen.</p><p>BBC News - Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c17n9k54</span><span class="invisible">qz2o</span></a></p>
DuncanMSussexPol<p>If this is the level of technical literacy in government it certainly explains why they thought the Online Safety Act was a good idea.</p><p>Lots of issues with this advice.</p><p><a href="https://www.thejournal.ie/uk-government-advises-people-to-delete-old-photos-and-emails-as-england-faces-water-shortfall-6788643-Aug2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thejournal.ie/uk-government-ad</span><span class="invisible">vises-people-to-delete-old-photos-and-emails-as-england-faces-water-shortfall-6788643-Aug2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openrightsgroup</span></a></span> </p><p>🤣</p><p>You underestimate governments ability to wait out complaints.</p><p>But certainly, we can and should refine <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> , particularly the regulation around age gating processes.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImproveOSANotRepeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImproveOSANotRepeal</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK Parliament can't ignore the growing public discontent with the Online Safety Act.</p><p>They must do more to protect freedom of expression from the vast and unwieldy provisions that are particularly impacting small sites and services.</p><p>Write to your MP ⬇️</p><p><a href="https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openrightsgroup.org/tel</span><span class="invisible">l-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafetyact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafetyact</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freedomofexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofexpression</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafety</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/osa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osa</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>"this is what Peter Kyle should have said"</p><p>lol, instead he calls everyone peados and runs off to Chat GPT to cry about it. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterKyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterKyle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a></p>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>Wikipedia loses its challenge to the UK Online Safety Act.</p><p>The UK High Court dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to parts of the country's Online Safety Act on Monday, but suggested the non-profit could have grounds for legal action in the future.</p><p>Wikipedia was particularly concerned that under the OSA's “Category 1” duties, the non-profit would be forced to verify the identity of users.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250811-wikipedia-loses-its-challenge-to-the-uk-online-safety-act?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250811</span><span class="invisible">-wikipedia-loses-its-challenge-to-the-uk-online-safety-act?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/HighCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighCourt</span></a></p>
Sarah Dal<p>The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.</p><p>You can download Wikipedia by installing the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kiwix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kiwix</span></a></span> app <a href="https://kiwix.org/en/applications/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kiwix.org/en/applications/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Then use <a href="https://library.kiwix.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">library.kiwix.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser </p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Kiwix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kiwix</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/25380290.wikipedia-loses-online-safety-act-legal-challenge/#Echobox=1754914303-2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenational.scot/news/25380290</span><span class="invisible">.wikipedia-loses-online-safety-act-legal-challenge/#Echobox=1754914303-2</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online services are also required to change their algorithms and moderation systems to ensure that content defined as harmful, like violent imagery, is not shown to young people.</p><p>During the four years that the legislation behind these changes—the Online Safety Act (OSA)—was debated in Parliament, and in the two years since while the UK’s independent, online regulator Ofcom devised the implementing regulations, experts from across civil society repeatedly flagged concerns about the impact of this law on both adults’ and children’s rights. Yet politicians in the UK pushed ahead and enacted one of the most contentious age verification mandates that we’ve seen.</p><p>The case of safety online is not solved through technology alone.<br>No one—no matter their age—should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. As we’ve been saying for many years now, the approach that UK politicians have taken with the Online Safety Act is reckless, short-sighted, and will introduce more harm to the children that it is trying to protect. Here are five reasons why:"</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/bloc</span><span class="invisible">king-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeVerification</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NannyState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NannyState</span></a></p>
Debacle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@girlonthenet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>girlonthenet</span></a></span></p><p>"Is the harm children might face from accidentally seeing some adult content greater than the harm to those children as they grow into adults who have been trained to upload their personal data to any website that asks for it?"</p><p>Maybe that's the whole point?<br>Educating a whole new generation to give up on any expectation of <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/ageVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageVerification</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/OnlineSurveillanceAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSurveillanceAct</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>The UK Online Safety Act ransoms your privacy for free speech 🛑</p><p>By age gating vaguely defined ‘harmful’ content, UK users face censorship.</p><p>It coerces people into coughing up their ID to unregulated age verification providers or scammers.</p><p>Write to your MP ⬇️ </p><p><a href="https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openrightsgroup.org/tel</span><span class="invisible">l-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafety</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freeexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freeexpression</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/freedomofexpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomofexpression</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageverification</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/agegate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agegate</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p>I don't trust Musk to do anything in good faith.</p><p>So, I don't believe any of the anti- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> examples of "overcaution" involving Twitter, when he hasn't even age gated his pornographic deepfake generator.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImproveOSANotRepeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImproveOSANotRepeal</span></a></p><p>BBC News - Elon Musk's AI accused of making explicit AI Taylor Swift videos<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye62e1ndjo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cwye62e1</span><span class="invisible">ndjo</span></a></p>
kawazoe<p>Cross-posted from my alt because mastodon doesn't support text attachments: <a href="https://transfem.social/notes/ab6nlqto6leh1vem" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">transfem.social/notes/ab6nlqto</span><span class="invisible">6leh1vem</span></a></p><p>This post is an open letter against bill S-209 destined to Honorable Mr Steven Guilbeault, House of Commons' representative in Canada.</p><p>After signing <a href="https://www.change.org/p/stop-bill-s-209-s-de-anonymization-of-every-canadian-adult" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">change.org/p/stop-bill-s-209-s</span><span class="invisible">-de-anonymization-of-every-canadian-adult</span></a> I felt compelled to do something actually significant and took the past two days to write this very personal letter to my representative about how bill S-209 and others like it in the world are decimating the wonderful communities that we, the queer community, took ages to build. Feel free to read through. Hopefully, it will inspire you to do the same.</p><p>Since the core of the message is in the attachment, I have chosen to forgo content warnings for this post. Consider this text as CW before moving to the actual letter.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canpol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/s209" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s209</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
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@bylinetimes

I love you, Byline, but you missed the plot here.

In a techworld with a history of dramatic under-caution, using #OSA as an excuse for over-caution and data grabbing is a corporate decision.

You were right there, with the section on Bluesky age-gating its messaging feature, and missed it.

If we're going to talk about the #OnlineSafetyAct we need to talk about how tech (esp Musk) is creating rage-bait to get it overturned (which grabbing more data)

No, I will not be verifying my age with Barclays Bank or TSB or RBS or NatWest. Did no muppet in government even begin to think that it would be a boon to online scammers !!! So much for making people safer online! #OSA