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Wikipedia loses challenge to UK's new internet "safety" rules

Wikipedia loses challenge to UK's new internet "safety" rules

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Aug 11, 2025
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The U.K. is implementing its so-called Online Safety Act, a legal smorgasbord of controls, restrictions, regulation and censorious follies of the kind doomed to make quick fools of the censors. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, challenged the law in court, but its challenge was dismissed today.

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