The Government‘s new Online Safety Bill will be ‚catastrophic‘ for ordinary people‘s freedom of speech, former minister David Davis warned today.

The Conservative MP said forcing social networks to take down content in Britain they deem unacceptable ‚seems out of Orwell‘s 1984‘.

Mr Davis, 72, slammed the idea Silicon Valley firms could take down posts they think are ‚not politically correct – even though it is legal‘.