Comment by tim333
8 days ago
>why the UK specifically is taking action
We have a history of trying banning bad stuff. Magna Carta in the 1200s against the right of kings, slavery abolition in the 1800s, now porn being pushed to kids.
I don't think child grooming or hate is particularly bad here but we tend to try to stop that kind of thing. We also had the first modern police force in 1829 and other innovations which have caught on in some other countries.
Some of the US alt right media pushes broken Britain stories because we have some muslim immigrants or something. The majority of the public support the bill https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-poll-finds-7-in-10-ad... I wonder if it's more the US is afraid of the their government that if they say they are promoting online saftey they are really going 1984 on the populace? Here people tend to assume they are in fact promoting what it says on the tin.
"Magna Carta in the 1200s against the right of kings"
Seems like the pendulum has swung back now, doesn't it? Increasing authority/rights of the government instead of a king.
~80% in favour of this stuff. Democracy for you.
If opposing a bill could cause you to be put on a watchlist, it's pretty easy to get a "large majority" favoring it.
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Which 80% is that? The ones now using VPNs to get around it?
Congratulations. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to compare stupid repression like the OSA to the Magna Carta.
This bill is similar the kind of government overreach that the Magna Carta was hoping to prevent.