Outrage over the Online Safety Act’s age-verification mandates has tended thus far to focus on amusing, if frustrating, ...

A newly enforced U.K. law mandating age verification on adult sites and certain other online platforms has triggered a backlash from both domestic internet ...

The UK Online Safety Act requires age verification for anyone seeking to access "adult" content, even if it's educational.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages Wikipedia, failed in its court challenge against sections of the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act but was given permission to challenge any decision that ...

A UK court has refused to grant exemption to Wikipedia from the Online Safety Act, asking Ofcom to determine its fate.

In some ways, the government’s decision to press ahead with its Online Safety Act is admirable. After all, the main reason ...

Since the end of July, porn sites in the UK have had to "highly effectively" check the age of users. Initial data suggests ...

The UK High Court of Justice on Monday dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's (WF) legal challenge to aspects of the new Online Safety Act (OSA), ruling that the organization failed to establish ...

The non-profit behind Wikipedia has lost its legal fight against the Online Safety Act – but it may still be on the right ...

The United Kingdom’s controversial social media law just made another big global splash, when Wikipedia — the beloved ...

“Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new [U.K.] Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. [The Wikimedia Foundation] wanted a ...

Wikipedia has lost its High Court challenge against the Online Safety Act – but what does that actually mean? The act ...