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Wikipedia loses challenge to UK's new internet "safety" rules

Monday August 11, 2025. 04:11 PM , from BoingBoing
The U.K. is implementing its so-called Online Safety Act, a legal smorgasbord of controls, restrictions, regulations and censorious follies of the kind likely to make quick fools of the censors. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, challenged relevant parts of the law in court, but its challenge was dismissed today. — Read the rest
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