Petitions/Repeal the Online Safety Act
StatusClosed
Opened22 Apr 2025
Closes22 Oct 2025
Government responseResponded
Parliamentary debateDebated · 4 Mar 2026
Milestones 10,000 100,000

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

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.

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Government response

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.

Constituency engagement ranking

Rachel Blake
1Rachel Blake MP
Cities of London and Westminster
2,194
Lucy Powell
2Lucy Powell MP
Manchester Central
1,521
Chris Law
3Chris Law MP
Dundee Central
1,495
Rebecca Long Bailey
4Rebecca Long Bailey MP
Salford
1,458
Tracy Gilbert
5Tracy Gilbert MP
Edinburgh North and Leith
1,455
Luke Pollard
6Luke Pollard MP
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
1,418
Daniel Zeichner
7Daniel Zeichner MP
Cambridge
1,394
Clive Lewis
8Clive Lewis MP
Norwich South
1,353
Siân Berry
9Siân Berry MP
Brighton Pavilion
1,336
Rachael Maskell
10Rachael Maskell MP
York Central
1,335