What is the UK’s Online Safety Act and what powers will it provide?

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is back in the spotlight after a week of violence driven in part by far-right groups coordinating online, using a mixture of services including Telegram, TikTok and X.

“There need to be amendments to the Online Safety Act,” the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told the Guardian on Thursday. “I think it’s not fit for purpose.”

But the act is a sprawling piece of legislation that runs to 286 pages and 241 sections….