Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
Signatures
550,136
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 10,000/10,000 · reached
Debate threshold (100,000) · 100,000/100,000 · reached
- 22 OCT 2025Petition closedFinal total: 550,136 signatures
- 28 JUL 2025Government respondedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyGovernment reply
The Government is working with Ofcom to ensure that online in-scope services are subject to robust but proportionate regulation through the effective implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023.
Read full response - 25 JUL 2025100,000 signatures reachedEligible to be considered for debate
- 15 JUL 202510,000 signatures reachedEligible for a government response
- 22 APR 2025Petition opened for signatures
Background
We believe that the scope of the Online Safety act is far broader and restrictive than is necessary in a free society.
For instance, the definitions in Part 2 covers online hobby forums, which we think do not have the resource to comply with the act and so are shutting down instead.
We think that Parliament should repeal the act and work towards producing proportionate legislation rather than risking clamping down on civil society talking about trains, football, video games or even hamsters because it can't deal with individual bad faith actors.