> fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn't help. That's not true. Maybe the Times HE isn't "mainstream" any more, but I just wrote a

> fact that this is getting 0 coverage from mainstream media doesn't help. That's not true. Maybe the Times HE isn't "mainstream" any more, but I just wrote a scathing piece which is leading the magazine this month, about how we got the Online Safety Bill as the wages of technical ignorance and abandoning basic digital literacy for three generations. The OSB is essentially a good thing. It's designed with a good heart, and addresses many abuses of technology that government should rightly legislate on. The implementation is garbage. It was written by people who were not competent to do so, since they were advised by deceptive and self-interested parties, and were not able to distinguish computer science from wishful thinking. The Times article places some of the blame on our crumbing university system (which is now run by professional managers instead of academics and no longer serves the public interest). UK universities now provide only expensive training certificates and no longer strive for education of the kind that produces leadership. As a result we get Michelle Donelan serving as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, because there nobody else to fill the post except someone with a degree in History and a career in Marketing. Besides, government and the state institutions cannot compete with Big Tech, and so we cannot recruit conscientious and technically capable people to key roles (Sunak plays up to the "tech savvy" persona, but is another PPE grad who blags his way by association and bluster).