{"id":219088,"date":"2025-07-31T00:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/uk-online-legislation-threat-to-operations-wikipedia-to-argue-in-court"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:07:03","slug":"uk-online-legislation-threat-to-operations-wikipedia-to-argue-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/uk-online-legislation-threat-to-operations-wikipedia-to-argue-in-court","title":{"rendered":"UK online legislation threat to operations, Wikipedia to argue in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-online-legislation-threat-to-operations-wikipedia-to-argue-in-court.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online encyclopedia Wikipedia will argue this week that the UK\u2019s Online Services Act could impact the safety and privacy of its volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation behind the crowdsourced information site Wikipedia will argue in British court this week that new legislation threatens its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.court-tribunal-hearings.service.gov.uk\/london-administrative-court-daily-cause-list?artefactId=6aaaf725-f38a-45d3-b1de-d93dbff47da0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Wikimedia Foundation will tell London\u2019s Royal Courts of Justice on July 22nd that the regulations under the UK\u2019s Online Safety Act (OSA) put it at \u201cunacceptable risk\u201d of being subject to Category 1 duties as a \u201chigh-risk site\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online encyclopedia Wikipedia will argue this week that the UK\u2019s Online Services Act could impact the safety and privacy of its volunteers. The foundation behind the crowdsourced information site Wikipedia will argue in British court this week that new legislation threatens its operations. The Wikimedia Foundation will tell London\u2019s Royal Courts of Justice on July [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}