Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users::The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the…
HUGE oof. Get your grandparents out of office and put some people who know how technology works in
They knew it wasn’t feasible but made it law anyways and passed it to ofcom to generate the guidelines for these companies to follow.
Absolutely incredible.
The absolutely hilarious thing about this is that all of these MPs that clamoured for this bill because “Won’t somebody think of the children!” are up to all sorts of terrible behaviour and a whole bunch of them are on Signal.
And the same day stirred up a shit storm about watering down climate commitments, surely coincidence…
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66857551
Unfortunately they are likely looking to both destroy free communication and the climate, and not just using it as a ruse… They’re psychotic.
Yeah, that sounds like something they’d do.
I wouldn’t worry about this too much. Today they announced they’re no longer implementing a bunch of things they just made up, like forcing people to car share, and something about demanding people to use a minimum of seven bins…
Tomorrow they will probably state that they’re banning lemons, or insisting that people are only allowed to talk with a French accent when ordering pastries.
Why all internet users and not “just” those in the UK?
VPNs: exist
At more length: the internet is incredibly complicated and interrelated. It’s actually extremely difficult to draw clear national boundaries in terms of one web service or another, and the result is honestly never going to be 100% accurate.
Sorry Brits, but I think this is a good time for Lemmy and pretty much any site that cares about privacy block the entirety of the UK. 😞
Sites and services outside the UK should not comply. If UK ISPs block sites outside the UK for not complying, so be it.
