The UK’s government continues to use last year’s Southport killings which led to widespread protests to promote online censorship, as a supposed panacea for the society’s ills.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle recently wrote to X, Meta, TikTok, Google (and YouTube) to ask that they remove “violent material” that the killer of three children, Axel Rudakubana, was able to access before committing the crime.