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Every few months, the UK government pipes up with threats to ban porn sites or threaten to force ISPs to do this, that or the other and with almost as much regu
by welly 10y ago
Every few months, the UK government pipes up with threats to ban porn sites or threaten to force ISPs to do this, that or the other and with almost as much regularity, those threats soon fade to nothing when they realise the magnitude of the task of doing so.
I suspect this latest threat will soon fall by the wayside.
- buro9 10y agoYou missed the bit where the IP Bill has been approved by all Houses and awaits Royal Assent: https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers.html https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypo... It's done. Pervasive surveillance is in. We have already achieved "forced ISPs to do this, that or the other".
- welly 10y agoI did miss that bit. Well, how about that then. They finally put their money where their mouth is, sadly.