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Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by raxxorraxor on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:24AM (#34923394)
> So take using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

It is worse. Encryption does protect children instead of endangering them. So these "charities" aren't even doing their job.

Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by cnity on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:32AM (#34923456)
Indeed: it is worthwhile to note the nefarious absence of the role of privacy in the laid out "risk assessment" of children's usage of a service, in part 3, chapter 2, point (6) of the bill.

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49376/documents/282...

Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by thallium205 on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:59AM (#34923623)
These “charities” are all funded by government grants anyway. You can safely claim they are both the same entity: the government.
Re:Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermi... by clnq on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:51AM (#34936268)
Yes. I don't want to live in a world where my kid sends someone a picture of immigrants on a boat and gets a criminal record. It's just a step between abolishing encryption and this.

And the next step is wide scope censorship like that instituted by the CCP. The ideas that we should censor politically inconvenient truths like the migrant crisis are already in the UK.