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The Online Harms White Paper: whatever happened to online-offline equivalence?

June 20, 2019

From internet time immemorial the UK government has adhered to the principle of online-offline equivalence. No Ministerial speech or government paper has been complete without reaffirming that what is illegal offline should be illegal online, or perhaps invoking its kissing cousin: that laws should be technology neutral. From MediaWrites

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United States
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General or Non-Specified
Freedom of Expression