[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Mario Nawfal [@MarioNawfal](/creator/twitter/MarioNawfal) on x 2.3M followers Created: 2025-07-26 15:35:00 UTC 🚨🇬🇧THE UK’S ONLINE SAFETY ACT IS A DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE WRAPPED IN A BUZZWORD The Online Safety Act is being sold like a Covid shot: just a little sting, for your own good. Except this shot kills free speech. Under Section 79, if you knowingly say something false online that causes “non-trivial psychological harm,” you can be criminally prosecuted. Not fined. Not deplatformed. Prosecuted. The state now decides what qualifies as “harm.” And whether you “meant it.” Intent is the courtroom battleground of every bad authoritarian law - because it’s impossible to prove, and easy to abuse. The act also demands platforms monitor private messages, turning WhatsApp and Signal into snitchware. It claims to fight abuse. But its language is so vague, so broad, and so subjective, it could just as easily be used to silence journalists, whistleblowers, and political dissent. This isn’t online safety. It’s offline tyranny - ported to the cloud. The UK needs to scrap this law before it becomes the blueprint for speech control in every Western democracy - and almost XXXXXXX UK citizens want to kill this law, too.  XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [drops](/topic/drops) [harm](/topic/harm) [online safety](/topic/online-safety) [Post Link](https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1949131346179203552)
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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal on x 2.3M followers
Created: 2025-07-26 15:35:00 UTC
🚨🇬🇧THE UK’S ONLINE SAFETY ACT IS A DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE WRAPPED IN A BUZZWORD
The Online Safety Act is being sold like a Covid shot: just a little sting, for your own good.
Except this shot kills free speech.
Under Section 79, if you knowingly say something false online that causes “non-trivial psychological harm,” you can be criminally prosecuted. Not fined. Not deplatformed. Prosecuted.
The state now decides what qualifies as “harm.”
And whether you “meant it.”
Intent is the courtroom battleground of every bad authoritarian law - because it’s impossible to prove, and easy to abuse.
The act also demands platforms monitor private messages, turning WhatsApp and Signal into snitchware.
It claims to fight abuse. But its language is so vague, so broad, and so subjective, it could just as easily be used to silence journalists, whistleblowers, and political dissent.
This isn’t online safety.
It’s offline tyranny - ported to the cloud.
The UK needs to scrap this law before it becomes the blueprint for speech control in every Western democracy - and almost XXXXXXX UK citizens want to kill this law, too.
XXXXXXX engagements
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