The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements. If it passes, the Online Safety Bill will be a huge step backwards for global privacy, and democracy itself.
Sooo it’s the UK government being dumb and pigheaded again. Yeah, that tracks.
Maybe they’re hoping a few companies cave and the rest don’t become a big deal for whatever use cases they don’t like, so they can act like the law worked. I’m not so sure that’s possible, though.