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Avon DeRussate
Avon DeRussate • mastodon (AP)

A reply has been published.

That is most pleasantly worded "Fuck you" I have read in a long time

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903


Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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Rick
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They seem to be in La-La land. They believe the things they are requiring are proportionate, technically practical and enforceable. Add to that the companies on the arse-end of the legislation taking dumb fool implementations to do age confirmation...

Of course they're going to double down and make it all even worse.

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Avon DeRussate
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@hrrunka VPN bans are coming...
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Rick
Rick • mastodon (AP)

Yep. Big Business will love that. What's the betting *they* get a exemption...

...and if they don't, well they'll just do it internally anyway.

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Avon DeRussate
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@hrrunka Of course they will. As will members of parliament.
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Pippin
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@Avon DeRussate @Rick I thought I noticed a lot of mentions of enforcement in tht statement, and how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against. Which basically means police state - so many are in violation the enforcers can choose who to take action against however they like. The whole reason so many sites are choosing to block the UK is because they don't want to get into all that. If the law shouldn't be so broad, make it not so broad, don't just make everyone a criminal and then choose only to enforce against people you don't like. But apparently they just don't get that (or choose not to get that).
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Avon DeRussate
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@pippin @hrrunka

"Which basically means police state"

Correct. it seems people are catching on. ;)

"how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against"

If I were writing the legislation "any domestic internet connection the traffic of which (records of which are subpoenaed from ISPS) appears to have an IP signature that suggests VPN use. "

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Rick
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They had more than enough (indeed quite possibly excessive) power to deal with genuine problems before that act came in. That act just pushed things way into "excessive powers" territory.
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