A seven-part series by internet law solicitor Yair Cohen on how Britain regulates the internet: who pays for Ofcom, how the Online Safety Act reaches American companies with no office here, what the speech laws do to British citizens, the plan to put approved news at the top of your feed, and the bill nobody in Whitehall has counted. Written for anyone interested, with sourced detail for lawyers and website operators. Start with the introduction, Dear America, Ofcom has sent you a bill.
Dear America, Let me begin with a confession. I am a lawyer, and lawyers are the reason you have never read to the end of anything about internet regulation. We write as if the reader were another lawyer, or a judge, or a wall. I am going to try not to do that here, because […]
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