Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by NooneAtAll3 on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:51PM (#44870804)

I can easily point to deception in two words

1) Hard 2) Words

"Should there be a reform of our justice system" -> "should the law be passed"

"emphasis", "restitution", "compensation" -> too hard to skim, brain is bailing out

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the only way to provide valid direct democracy is to provide more than enough explanations and rewordings from both sides of the debate *at the point of voting* to remove miscommunication

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by anigbrowl on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:06PM (#44871233)

I agree that it's unnecessarily wordy, but I still don't think it's deceptive. If your brain is bailing out that fast maybe it's better not to vote.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by xvector on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @06:14AM (#44874421)

Hard disagree. Systems must be designed with typical human fallibilities in mind.

Anyone that phrases a referendum like that ought to be sentenced to hard labor themselves for attempting to subvert democracy.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by anigbrowl on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:08PM (#44880568)

This isn't a system, it's a sentence. It's not that hard to read 13 more words.

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