Social media safety laws are 'borderline dystopian' - Reform

Reform UK has promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, arguing that measures intended to limit false and potentially harmful content on social media would instead make the UK "a borderline dystopian state".

- Peter Walker

At a press conference billed as being about crime, Nigel Farage and his close aide, Zia Yusuf, instead spoke extensively about the act and its approach to social media.

"So much of the act is massive overreach and plunges this country into a borderline dystopian state," said Yusuf, who was formerly the party chair and now leads a team looking for efficiencies in Reform-run councils.

Farage and Yusuf said a Reform government would immediately repeal the act, which came into force last week, and look for other ways to protect children from harmful online content. They said they did not yet know how this would be done.