Officials in the United Kingdom are bracing for a clash with the White House as far-right social media platforms dismiss legal requests from British regulators tackling illegal online content. It comes as Westminster’s envoys make purposefully quiet representations to their counterparts in Washington over a separate, unrelated legal order controversially given to Apple earlier this year. As one official told Recorded Future News, that quiet approach was based on a strong desire to avoid provoking an “unproductive public argument” with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on the issue of British laws impacting U.S.-based technology companies, particularly in the wake of Vance chastising European countries for what he deemed to be their regulators’ lack of commitment to free speech on U.S.-based platforms.
UK braced for ‘free speech’ row with JD Vance as far-right websites spurn Online Safety Act (Alexander Martin, The Record)
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