The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
  • Doc Blaze@lemmy.world
    95·
    9 months ago

    The government, however, has said the bill does not ban end-to-end encryption.

    Instead it will require companies to take action to stop child abuse on their platforms and as a last resort develop technology to scan encrypted messages, it has said.

    Tech companies have said scanning messages and end-to-end encryption are fundamentally incompatible.

    Jesus Christ how staggeringly incompetent is the national government that no tech ceo can find a way to explain to them there is no way to govern content without having access to it via a known backdoor, which very plainly is to fundamentally break encryption.

    Let’s propose a bill that forces them to find a way to invent a flashable laser beam that scans for government corruption that happens behind closed doors, even private residences, and if they miss anything, the entire cabinet will be fined and must legally be fired before next election.

    You see the bill doesn’t make you responsible for all corruption in every back alley everywhere, only for not immediately detecting and stopping it before it takes hold, in any shape or form not currently possible.

    Fucking morons. Don’t we decide who is smart enough to be voted into government? These people are the best we can come up with? This what I think people mean when they say voting is pointless.

    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
      621·
      9 months ago

      I think the idea behind these kinds of laws isn’t so much the stated intent, which as far as I can tell is basically unenforceable, but to introduce a ton of extremely vague laws that could apply to almost anything you do online, which they can then use selectively against whoever they feel like.

    • JoKi@feddit.deEnglish
      32·
      9 months ago

      Jesus Christ how staggeringly incompetent is the national government that no tech ceo can find a way to explain to them there is no way to govern content without having access to it via a backdoor, which is to fundamentally break encryption.

      Pretty sure they know that it’s not possible without breaking encryption. They just want to blame the tech companies because their bill ‘doesn’t demand it’.

      • Doc Blaze@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months ago

        yeah, exactly. and therefore reinforcing my viewpoint that politicians are the the lowest layer of tarred scum pasted to the bottom of Mariana’s trench. willing to destroy something as important as encryption, while still wanting to find a way to word it to the gullible public so that they can weasel out of the responsibility, and blame the people who did a good thing by providing encryption services to the vulnerable masses, for causing child abuse and other things that are terrible yet unrelated to the encryption issue.

    • renlok@lemmy.ml
      17·
      9 months ago

      This government is the result of multiple votes of no confidence and they somehow get worse each time.

    • Retiring@lemmy.ml
      8·
      9 months ago

      I feel what you are saying, but tech ceos explaining governments things is the problem. I do agree with the rest of what you said.