This Is Alot Worse Than You Think (Russell Brand)

The UK’s new Online Safety Act claims to protect children—but what it really does is silence dissent, censor protests, and hand sweeping powers to unelected officials. Age verification, algorithmic restrictions, backdoor access to private messages… it’s a digital surveillance regime dressed up as child safety. From the criminalization of satire to the censorship of protest footage, we expose how this law targets everyday people while letting real power go unchecked.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 6, 2025.]