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It's not just the UK, is the whole world: "Privacy activists oppose EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28892013 htt

• rektide 5y ago
  And the Orwellian aspects aren't just trying to change their fucked up little places, they're trying to redefine how the whole internet has to operate, demanding the world's information system caters to them. Even with projects like GDPR, we're trying to build some pro-citizen rules. But we've still done nothing to defend or enable individuals, to grant them powers & rights to operate independently & freely online. There's no bill of hosting rights, that I'm aware of, anywhere on the planet. I want to see a nation step up & try to enhance & promote speech & data of it's citizen's in an supernational context. Our citizens have a right to have their words online! We are actively building & encouraging hosting solutions to enable that!
  • userbinator 5y ago
    The US would've been the only nation to have the resources and attitude to want to do something like that, but currently it seems to be taking an Orwellian path of its own too.
    • rektide 5y ago
      Any random country could declare a slew of user rights. The country doesnt have to use big-stick behavior to insist upon rights: they can just tacitly support every unlocking, jailbreaking, right to repair, pro consumer move that comes along. Dont litigate for change, just provide a bastion of defence for the segment of the population working to spring free from the top down consumerization the world has fallen into passivity into.