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17 Apr 2024 By Sara Chitseko
Extremism Redefined: Caught in a Mouth Trap
Last month, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove MP, announced a new and expanded definition of extremism as part of the Government’s Counter Terrorism Strategy.
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07 Mar 2024 By Pam Cowburn
Donelan and the rise of government censorship
There are calls for the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Michelle Donelan to resign after she falsely accused two academics of promoting extremism.
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04 Mar 2024 By Abigail Burke
A dangerous precedent for global censorship
ORG responds to Ofcom’s Online Safety Act plans
Last week, Open Rights Group responded to Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation, the first of a series of consultations Ofcom will be holding on the development of its guidance for the Online Safety Act.
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15 May 2023 By Dr Monica Horten
Small Boats and Silent Protest: Prior Restraint in the Online Safety Bill
Under new rules created by the Online Safety Bill, all illegal content must be removed from social media platforms.
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11 May 2023 By Pam Cowburn
Online Safety Bill: A Danger to Democracy
The campaign group, Republic have called for an investigation into the arrest of eight of their members, including Chief Executive Graham Smith, ahead of the organisation’s planned protest of the King’s coronation.
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Campaign
Check if your website is being blocked by filters
Our Blocked project aims to improve transparency about web blocking filters used by mobile phone companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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Campaign
Digital censorship averted as UK shelves Copyright Directive
Nearly a year after passage of the EU Copyright Directive, which opened the door to automated upload filters that damage free speech, the UK Government decided not to implement it.
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Campaign
Victory on Supreme Court web blocking judgement
Open Rights Group intervened in a legal challenge in which French jeweller Cartier sought court injunctions ordering ISPs to block websites which sell counterfeit Cartier products.
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Campaign
Winning the right to parody
July 2014
Reform of outdated copyright laws has been a major campaign focus for ORG from day one.
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Exposing online censorship
With the Blocked project we did groundbreaking research on the impact of web filters.
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Campaign
Announcing the Department of Dirty
With a professional comedy video highlighting what happens when you just want to look for classic Spotted Dick, we raised awareness of the problems caused by filtering the Internet in the UK.
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Challenging the Digital Economy Act
From 2010 – 2011 we fought against a law which proposed disconnecting whole households from the Internet on the basis of allegations of copyright infringement.
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Exterma-knit: Defending creativity
May 2008 – July 2008
ORG spearheaded resistance in the media, when BBC lawyers tried to shut down a knitting blogger who shared her Doctor Who cuddly Daleks and Ood designs on her site.
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