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Something strange is going on here. Nothing has changed about the bill, yet all news outlets are reporting as if it has. All that happened was that somebody sa

• Arathorn 3y ago
  The root cause of the confusion seems to be https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1699405364968423828 https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1699405364968423828, which appears to be based on a wildly overenthusiastic misreading of this coverage: https://www.ft.com/content/770e58b1-a299-4b7b-a129-bded8649a43b https://www.ft.com/content/770e58b1-a299-4b7b-a129-bded8649a.... Basically, the government tried to deflect this by saying "don't worry, we'll pass this into law, but we'll only implement this when the scanning tech is ready", and inexplicably this was seen as a win?!?
  • kmlx 3y ago
    > Child safety campaigners have spent years pushing the government to be tougher on tech companies over abuse material that is shared on their apps. > Richard Collard, head of child safety online policy at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said: “Our polling shows the UK public overwhelmingly support measures to tackle child abuse in end-to-end encrypted environments. Tech firms can show industry leadership by listening to the public and investing in technology that protects both the safety and privacy rights of all users.”