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>Make no mistake: the Online Safety Bill has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. I don't think that's entirely true. I am sure many MPs, charit
by daveoc64 4y ago
>Make no mistake: the Online Safety Bill has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children.
I don't think that's entirely true.
I am sure many MPs, charities, and campaigners do only see this as an issue of child (and more generally, public) safety.
I think the difficulty has always been explaining to laypeople that allowing any kind of monitoring or surveillance significantly weakens the security of encrypted messaging.
- stephen_g 4y agoI think of it another way. The bill itself isn’t anything to do with protecting children - but lots of people (MPs, charities, campaigners) have been misled into supporting it. It’s what makes “think of the children” the best way to pass bad legislation. Not only does it make it very hard to object to a bill that won’t actually help children, but you get lots of free support from well-meaning people who don’t understand the implications of the bad legislation they’ve been conned into fighting for!