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Mark’s comments have been published below with kind permission.
Ofcom’s expected to make its first decisions on categorization this summer.
The Online Safety Act has come in for a barrage of criticism: the issue of categorisation comes alongside broader concerns about privacy and safety.
“It is important to stress that this was not a challenge to the Online Safety Act, but instead to the regulations on categorisation,” commented Mark Jones, dispute resolution partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach.
“Further, the door is very much open for further legal challenge by Wikipedia, if Ofcom makes Wikipedia a category 1 service.”
For further information, please contact Mark Jones or your usual contact in the Dispute Resolution Department or, alternatively, telephone on 020 7693 5875
