Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "The Online Safety Act comes into force today, which is bad news for free speech on the internet" video.

  1. Wasn't there a similar thing about "video nasties" in the 1980's?
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  2. Offence is taken, not given.
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  3. And how are they going to stop it. Visit every home to see who's using the internet?
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  4. If it causes crime. Then surely you have the defence that it was the programme which was just as much to blame. Do they think that censorship will have any effect on reducing bad behaviour?
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  5. @ Now you could have used it as a valid excuse. Especially, as those cartoons might now be seen as responsible for bad behaviour.
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  6. The slowly boiling frog.
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  7. If all this supposedly bad content is responsible for people's actions. Then we can use the defence that the content is responsible for what somebody does.
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  8. What about all those so-called "video nasties" in the 1980's? Just how did any kid make it through watching one of those.
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  9. @ Broken keyboard?
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  10. The UK having no written constitution protecting free speech, means that the days of it are getting fewer.
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  11. How about ditching the "control" part?
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