The UK government has admitted that the technology needed to securely scan encrypted messages sent on Signal and WhatsApp doesn’t exist, weakening its controversial Online Safety Bill.
So they’ve decided that this part of the bill will be unenforceable and useless, but they plan to go ahead and pass it anyway. I suppose they’ll soon need to do the same for the age verification nonsense as well.
They still want to impose these ill-conceived laws on us so as to appear to have done something, but the people who had somehow been convinced that this would do some good will be disappointed. If they stick with this course, they will soon have managed the impressive political feat of pleasing exactly nobody with the results of this excruciating years-long process of counterproductive legislating.
There are plenty of laws out there that nobody cares about enough to try and enforce, but if you aggrevate the wrong people then suddenly you’re found in technical violation of them and they have rational to toy with your life. This would be one of them I expect.
So they’ve decided that this part of the bill will be unenforceable and useless, but they plan to go ahead and pass it anyway. I suppose they’ll soon need to do the same for the age verification nonsense as well.
They still want to impose these ill-conceived laws on us so as to appear to have done something, but the people who had somehow been convinced that this would do some good will be disappointed. If they stick with this course, they will soon have managed the impressive political feat of pleasing exactly nobody with the results of this excruciating years-long process of counterproductive legislating.
There are plenty of laws out there that nobody cares about enough to try and enforce, but if you aggrevate the wrong people then suddenly you’re found in technical violation of them and they have rational to toy with your life. This would be one of them I expect.