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iPlod: Sajid Javid’s new internet rules will have a chilling effect on free speech

13 April 2019

9:00 AM

13 April 2019

9:00 AM

Monday wasn’t the best day for the government to launch Online Harms, its white paper on internet regulation. As Sajid Javid was proudly proclaiming that Britain would have the toughest internet laws in the world, it emerged that a British woman had been arrested on a trip to Dubai and faced up to two years in prison for describing her ex-husband’s new wife as a ‘horse’ on Facebook.

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