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From the telephone operator to your timeline: how a 1935 law about rude phone calls became Britain’s weapon against the internet

This is chapter 1 of Regulated Without Representation, a series by internet law solicitor Yair Cohen on how Britain regulates the internet and who pays for it. New here? Start with the introduction. Picture a telephone exchange in 1935. Rows of young women in headsets, a wall of sockets and cords, and a voice in […]

Thirty-four arrests a day: what Britain does to its own citizens for words, and the repeal it promised and forgot

This is chapter 4 of Regulated Without Representation, a series by internet law solicitor Yair Cohen on how Britain regulates the internet and who pays for it. New here? Start with the introduction. The previous chapter is here. On the afternoon of 29 July 2024 a seventeen year old walked into a Taylor Swift themed

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