The UK’s Online Safety Act: A Trojan Horse for Censorship and Global Control

In an era where digital freedom is under siege, the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 stands as a chilling milestone. Enforced in phases since receiving royal assent in October 2023, with key provisions on illegal harms and child protection ramping up by early 2025, this legislation—overseen by regulator Ofcom—purports to shield users from online harms. But beneath its benevolent facade lies a mechanism for stifling dissent, criminalizing speech, and advancing a shadowy agenda of control. Last Friday, August 8, 2025, marked a pivotal escalation as Ofcom began imposing stricter duties on platforms to assess and mitigate risks, effectively turning social media giants into state-sanctioned censors. This isn’t protection; it’s a blueprint for an Orwellian dystopia, with tentacles reaching toward the United States and beyond.

Step 1: Unpacking the Act’s Provisions – What It Claims to Combat

The Online Safety Act imposes a “duty of care” on user-to-user services (like social media) and search engines to prevent the spread of illegal content and protect children from harmful material. Platforms must proactively identify risks, remove offending content swiftly, and report to Ofcom, facing fines up to 10% of global revenue for non-compliance.

Here’s a vetted list of the priority illegal content and activities platforms are required to protect users from, as outlined in the Act:

  • Terrorism and Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA): Content promoting terrorism or child abuse must be removed immediately.

  • Fraud: Scams, including financial fraud and fake investment schemes.

  • Revenge Porn and Intimate Image Abuse: Non-consensual sharing of private images.

  • Threats and Harassment: Including death threats, stalking, and cyberbullying.

  • Promoting or Facilitating Suicide or Self-Harm: Content encouraging harmful behaviors.

  • Selling Illegal Drugs or Weapons: Advertisements or promotions for controlled substances or firearms.

  • Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Material that assists or facilitates unlawful entry, such as ads for smuggling services.

  • Other Offenses: Including hate speech, misinformation that incites violence, and content related to organized crime.

Ofcom’s guidance emphasizes systems to detect and remove these, but the Act’s broad scope allows for subjective interpretation. For instance, while not explicitly banning “posting about illegal immigration,” content deemed to “assist” it—such as sharing routes or criticizing border policies in a way that could be twisted as encouragement—can trigger removal. Recent arrests following the 2024 UK riots, fueled by misinformation about immigration, highlight how the Act is weaponized against critics. Posts questioning government handling of asylum seekers have been flagged as “harmful,” even if factual, under the guise of preventing “disinformation.” This isn’t safeguarding; it’s silencing debate on a crisis that’s overwhelming communities.

Step 2: The Guise of “Helping People” – But Whose Agenda?

Proponents, including the Carnegie UK Trust—which heavily influenced the Bill’s development through advocacy and policy recommendations—frame the Act as a shield for the vulnerable. Yet, this “help” masks a push for elite control. Carnegie, rooted in the legacy of robber baron Andrew Carnegie, exemplifies how old money from industrial titans like Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt continues to shape destiny from the grave. These “philanthropic” foundations fund policies that consolidate power, much like Carnegie’s historical efforts to mold education, religion and society.

The Act’s focus on “illegal immigration and people smuggling” as priority harms reveals the pork: enabling unchecked migration to fuel voter fraud. By criminalizing content that exposes smuggling networks or critiques open borders, it protects an influx designed to alter demographics and secure votes for globalist agendas. This ties into PACs like Texans for Truth & Liberty PAC, a Texas-based group active since 2025, which—while not directly linked—echoes networks backed by figures like George Soros and Bill Gates. These billionaires, through foundations, pour millions into immigration advocacy and election integrity challenges, controlling politics, culture, and lives. Soros’s Open Society Foundations and Gates’s global health initiatives have long pushed narratives that blur borders, using crises to advance one-world governance.

Step 3: Exporting Tyranny to the US – KOSA and the Assault on Privacy

This isn’t confined to the UK. Efforts to import similar controls to America are underway via the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), reintroduced in May 2025 as S.1748. KOSA mandates platforms to protect minors from harms like anxiety, bullying, and exploitation, but it opens the door to age verification—potentially requiring driver’s licenses or government IDs to access sites. This is outright doxxing, forcing users to surrender anonymity and “secure papers” in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” and the Bill of Rights’ emphasis on privacy.

KOSA didn’t work in prior sessions due to free speech concerns—it stalled in 2024 amid fears of overreach. So “they”—the globalist cabal of elites including Soros, Gates, and foundation heirs—pivoted to financial levers. These are the same forces who, through entities like the Carnegie Endowment, fund international policy harmonization. “They” encompass deep-state bureaucrats, tech oligarchs, and NGO networks that weaponize crises for control, as seen in their coordinated push for digital IDs worldwide.

Enter Visa and Mastercard: Pressured by groups like Australia’s Collective Shout, which campaigns against “exploitative” content, these processors forced platforms like Steam to remove hundreds of adult games in July 2025. Collective Shout’s open letter to Visa and Mastercard demanded bans on “rape and incest” themed games, leading to mass delistings and blocking purchases. This censorship extended to conservative voices, echoing “Operation Choke Point” under Obama, where banks were pressured to debank industries like firearms. Trump ended the original in 2017, but “Choke Point 2.0” targeted crypto and dissenters.

Step 4: Trump’s Counterstrike – Blocking the Bankers’ Grip

President Donald J. Trump fought back. On August 7, 2025, he signed Executive Order “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” directing regulators to investigate banks debanking based on political or religious beliefs. This EO targets practices like those in Choke Point, ensuring fair access and probing discrimination against conservatives, gun owners, and industries. It signals the end for Collective Shout’s influence and Visa/Mastercard’s arbitrary censorship, which leveraged banks to purge games from Steam and block transactions for “undesirable” content.

Trump’s action builds on his 2020 Fair Access to Financial Services rule, halting the weaponization of finance against Americans.

Step 5: Historical Parallels – From Spanish Flu to COVID, a Pattern of Control

This isn’t new. During the 1918 Spanish Flu, governments imposed shutdowns, masks, and quarantines amid World War I chaos, suppressing news to maintain morale—much like COVID-19’s global lockdowns. Anti-lockdown protests erupted then, too, forcing reopenings. Platforms were weaponized during COVID to push untested vaccines, censoring skeptics under “misinformation” labels—echoing the Act’s playbook. The agenda? Test blind obedience, as Gates-funded initiatives accelerated vaccine mandates.

Central to this during COVID was Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who became the face of the U.S. response. Fauci advocated for strict lockdowns, mask mandates, and rapid vaccine rollout, often clashing with critics who accused him of overreach and suppressing alternative views. He has faced scrutiny for allegedly misleading Congress on COVID origins and gain-of-function research funding, with House Republicans grilling him in 2024 over what they called a “cover-up.” Fauci’s role helped globalists push centralized control, mirroring how platforms censored dissent on lockdowns and vaccines, much like the Online Safety Act now does for “harmful” content.

A historical parallel emerges with Dr. Rupert Blue, the U.S. Surgeon General during the 1918 Spanish Flu, often dubbed the “Fauci of his era.” Blue coordinated national responses, including quarantines and public health campaigns, but faced criticism for downplaying the crisis initially and suppressing information to avoid panic amid wartime efforts. Similarly, Dr. Thomas Tuttle, a key public health official in Washington state, enforced strict measures like school closures and mask ordinances, drawing ire for authoritarian tactics that echoed Fauci’s lockdown advocacy. These figures illustrate how health crises are leveraged by elites to test compliance.

Following the money reveals deeper ties: Bill Gates, through his foundation, invested heavily in mRNA vaccine development, providing early funding to Moderna in 2016 and billions during COVID to shape the global response. While fact-checks clarify Gates doesn’t own direct patents on COVID vaccines, his influence over intellectual property and partnerships—such as with Oxford University and AstraZeneca—has been criticized as “vaccine colonialism,” prioritizing profits over equitable access. Patents on mRNA technology, held by entities like Moderna (which Gates funded), stem from decades of virus research, raising concerns about weaponization.

Claims have proliferated that these vaccines serve as precursors for body modification, control, and surveillance tracking—allegations of microchips or nanotechnology for monitoring populations, often tied to Gates. These narratives highlight fears of how RNA research, funded by globalists, could enable future biotech surveillance, especially as vaccine safety systems evolved into robust monitoring networks during COVID. For instance, Google’s Android platform integrated COVID-19 contact tracing features through the Exposure Notifications System, a joint effort with Apple that used Bluetooth technology to monitor and track users’ proximity to infected individuals, notifying them of potential exposure and enabling widespread surveillance under the guise of public health. This ties back to the Act’s censorship: Just as platforms suppressed vaccine skepticism, labeling it “misinformation,” the Online Safety Act now flags content challenging official narratives, paving the way for total control over discourse and, potentially, populations.

Step 6: The Slippery Slope to Orwellian 1984 – Why We Must Resist

This cascade—from speech curbs to financial exclusion—leads to Orwell’s nightmare: constant surveillance, thought police, and erased freedoms. Whether it’s labeled “hate speech” or simply sharing stories about your grandchildren on Facebook, your freedom of speech and press, enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, is under threat. By tying immigration critique to “illegal content,” it enables voter fraud through unchecked migration. We risk surrendering our God-given rights, enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America, trading them for mere “privileges” granted by oppressive laws. Resist now by contacting your duly elected officials to voice your concerns, hold them accountable, join grassroots movements and invite your elected officials to defend liberty, or we will lose our sovereignty forever. Our forefathers did not shed their blood on battlefields to protect our freedoms against tyranny, foreign or domestic, only for us to relinquish them to globalist agendas. Benjamin Franklin – September 17, 1787 responded to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question with: “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”, how profound Franklin’s words ring so true today. Trump’s Executive Order is a vital step, but eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

    No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

    President Donald J. Trump


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