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Wikimedia lawsuit set to test how UK Online Safety Act classifies risky services

By Patricia Figueiredo ( May 19, 2025, 10:15 GMT | Comment) -- Wikimedia's legal challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act is poised to be a landmark test of how the law categorizes services, and thus imposes duties on them, and highlights growing concerns among platforms in scope of the act. A new report by campaigners at Open Rights Group singled out the Wikipedia operator's case as an example of how the act’s requirements, if its toughest duties are enforced on Wikipedia, could undermine UK users’ access to information.The Wikimedia Foundation’s decision to launch a legal challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act has made waves for the broader questions it raises about rules on how online services are categorized that lie at the heart of implementing the law....

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