the media wars with the eu and the empire will probably get real interesting;

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.

Such an argument may now be on the horizon anyway. Last week, Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator, began enforcing the country’s Online Safety Act by sending advisory letters to online platforms that serve content to users in the U.K.

The letter warns those platforms that they have certain duties under the British law to tackle illegal content, for instance material that could amount to a racially aggravated public order offence, and that failing to meet these duties could result in a fine worth £18 million ($23 million), or 10% of their global turnover, whichever is higher...........more.......