The UK Goes Full Orwell
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## Sunday, August 24, 2025
### The UK Goes Full Orwell
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**The UK Goes Full Orwell**
Daniel Greenfield
The Online Safety Act was sold to the British public as a way to protect children from adult content, but fighting porn proved to be a trojan horse over fighting what the regime cared about.
Any Britons trying to read the Act probably never made it to Chapter 7 at which point the wooden horse legislation listed a ‘Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ and began handing out matching orders on how internet services are supposed to deal with the bogeys of unfettered speech. What does disinformation have to do with keeping kids from accessing porn?
**Recent court hearings revealed that officialshad stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into.**
Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.
**The OSA is one of a series of pieces of legislation that seem designed to replicate Orwell’s nightmarish 1984 dystopia under the guise of reforming and protecting people from things.**
Orwell’s inspiration for 1984 came from his time working for the BBC under the Ministry of Information which he sarcastically rebranded in the book as the Ministry of Truth. Today’s Ministry of Truth is OFCOM, the UK’s monstrous speech regulator, which, in a fitting tribute to 1984, is forcing Big Brother onto ‘Smart’ TVs. In an echo of 1984’s TVs playing government propaganda that can’t