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Total lack of response to this letter will speak volumes about the essential nature of this UK Government. The UK Opposition Party's view as of last January is

• cbeach 3y ago
  Looks like the opposition's stance is even worse. Labour's Lucy Powell: “The weakened bill will give abusers a licence to troll, and the business models of big tech will give these trolls a platform.” So the Labour government will get to decide who's a "troll," and whether they're de-platformed AKA cancelled. Likewise Labour's desire to curb "legal but harmful" speech means that Labour will get to decide, on an ongoing basis, which speech is "harmful." It won't be defined in law, so the definition will be completely subjective, and ripe for corruption and chilling suppression of innocent people.
• denton-scratch 3y ago
  > The government disagrees and says the bill “does not represent a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption.” The bill mandates an end-run around E2E encryption. Government spokespeople are deeply disingenuous about this; the two ends are me and you, metaphorically; two users. If there's anything in the channel before the content is encrypted or after it's decrypted, then it isn't end-to-end any more.