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The author's take is a bit baffling to me. Trying to apply the US constitutional amendments against a foreign government institution to protect a US company is dumb. Those amendments strictly apply to the US government. As long as the company provides services in the UK, they are subject to UK laws on those services. If I start shipping firearms from the US to the UK it'd be perfectly reasonable for the UK to stop those packages at the border and destroy them. Network packets don't just magically transcend borders.
The reasonable consequence of noncompliance is to block the service. Yes, that's essentially paving the way for a national internet filter like China's Great Firewall, but that's why we have to fight the entire law not just the enforcement of it.
The Online Safety Act is horrible and a nightmare for so many reasons, but arguing it's unenforceable on the grounds of being in a different country is just blatantly wrong.