Making Wikipedia collect user info for absolutely no reason is ridiculous.
If Starmer announces plans to scrap this I will run down the street singing Things Can Only Get Better in red underpants, but he won’t, because Labour has always been an authoritarian party too.
I’m a little confused as to how they expect us developers to do this. Are we going to need to have a validated form of photo identification associated with each account? Otherwise I can’t see why it’s any better than the silly enter your age thing in Steam when viewing game demos.
So they are trying to kill the internet! As with everything else, death by a thousand cuts!!
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Most people get their porn on Reddit and Twitter.
What are they going to do? Hide those apps behind a credit card? They will never agree.
And blocking encryption on messaging? That’s downright Orwellian, as well as trivial for anyone with even a minor knowledge of tech (aka criminals) to get around.
Ridiculous authoritarian wonkers.
Steps to pass laws in the UK:
1. Make it about “protecting the children”
2. There are no other steps
When anyone challenges it you can just scream “oh so you just want kids to be groomed and molested?”.
Just look at any “concern” groups about other issues and most of the time their main argument is “but the children”. Happens all the time.
What a complete waste of time & effort, you can’t police the internet though there trying
Just make an amendment that they can not ask companies to break encryption. That’s the big issue that could be resolved with an amendment, but why would they want to do that as government giving up Orwellian power if they’ve already got it. Disgusting. Maybe when people can’t use WhatsApp or other services in the UK they’ll notice.
In other news, VPN subscriptions are on a sharp rise
Oh I feel so much “safer”, thanks!
You really do have to have absolute serf brain to applaud authoritarian nonsense like this.
I think they will struggle to implement a lot of it. The law is badly written. Australian regulators have struggled to get things like age getting to work.
In a few years proponents will be upset it doesn’t work. A different approach will be required.
At least the likes of ORG, Liberty and Big Brother Watch secured a few amendments to get some of the censorship watered down.
UK and EU are going to ruin the internet for everyone.
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Good in theory horrible in practice.
Making Wikipedia collect user info for absolutely no reason is ridiculous.
If Starmer announces plans to scrap this I will run down the street singing Things Can Only Get Better in red underpants, but he won’t, because Labour has always been an authoritarian party too.
I’m a little confused as to how they expect us developers to do this. Are we going to need to have a validated form of photo identification associated with each account? Otherwise I can’t see why it’s any better than the silly enter your age thing in Steam when viewing game demos.
So they are trying to kill the internet! As with everything else, death by a thousand cuts!!
[deleted]
Most people get their porn on Reddit and Twitter.
What are they going to do? Hide those apps behind a credit card? They will never agree.
And blocking encryption on messaging? That’s downright Orwellian, as well as trivial for anyone with even a minor knowledge of tech (aka criminals) to get around.
Ridiculous authoritarian wonkers.
Steps to pass laws in the UK:
1. Make it about “protecting the children”
2. There are no other steps
When anyone challenges it you can just scream “oh so you just want kids to be groomed and molested?”.
Just look at any “concern” groups about other issues and most of the time their main argument is “but the children”. Happens all the time.
What a complete waste of time & effort, you can’t police the internet though there trying
Just make an amendment that they can not ask companies to break encryption. That’s the big issue that could be resolved with an amendment, but why would they want to do that as government giving up Orwellian power if they’ve already got it. Disgusting. Maybe when people can’t use WhatsApp or other services in the UK they’ll notice.
In other news, VPN subscriptions are on a sharp rise
Oh I feel so much “safer”, thanks!
You really do have to have absolute serf brain to applaud authoritarian nonsense like this.
I think they will struggle to implement a lot of it. The law is badly written. Australian regulators have struggled to get things like age getting to work.
In a few years proponents will be upset it doesn’t work. A different approach will be required.
At least the likes of ORG, Liberty and Big Brother Watch secured a few amendments to get some of the censorship watered down.
UK and EU are going to ruin the internet for everyone.