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The Online Safety Bill, going through Parliament, is very clear that is not sufficient. Every site on the internet will need to independently take your credit
by Mindwipe 4y ago
The Online Safety Bill, going through Parliament, is very clear that is not sufficient.
Every site on the internet will need to independently take your credit card details or some quack like face recognition app, or make it's content safe for thirteen year olds.
And it will achieve nothing, but be a disaster. But this is real. This is before Parliament, right now, and the only opposition is that it's not draconian enough.
- gambiting 4y agoAbsolutely. And pretty much no one in mainstream media is talking about it, other than some very surface level articles about how it will "finally" make social media companies responsible for the less savoury content. Which it will, sure, but at an incredible price.
- 908B64B197 4y agoYou mean the government sponsored & operated BBC wouldn't cover it? I'm shocked! > how it will "finally" make social media companies responsible for the less savoury content Once again, blaming the evil foreign tech companies.
- kmlx 4y ago> You mean the government sponsored & operated BBC wouldn't cover it? I'm shocked! the bbc independent as per its charter, and it is covering thus piece of legislation. but it only reports, doesn’t express an opinion. the rest of press love it thou. so does the public, the various ngos, all political parties etc. > Once again, blaming the evil foreign tech companies. i don’t know if you’ve followed the news but, politically, europe as a whole is firmly against US tech companies.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThe UK has always had this prison camp mentality. The mummified body of the Jeremy Bentham is literally enshrined in the London School of Economics and the government operates a panopticon whose primary purpose is making sure that everyone affirms that Britain is great despite being literally cold and hungry. Opinion columnists fulminate about injustice but studiously avoid suggesting what anyone should do about it; hence the very British style of saying 'Authorities must do X Y Z' which lets their readers enjoy a good harrumph at the start of the day and then quietly return to helpless impotence. In the evening there are TV shows that let everyone enjoy a good larf at their rulers and then shiver themselves to sleep under the blankets.