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.
  • 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.