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.
the sad thing is that here in the states it’s not the rich, its the traditionally working class parties that drive these types of rights snatching bills. at some point being a liberal became less about helping people being opressed by having a strong government to even the playing field and help them than about making sure everybody is up to date on the right terminology while having a strong government empowered by these large corporations to exploit our data instead of using them to keep the powers in check.
all for the children, of course. all these bills love to hide behind either the idea of national security under threat, or innocent children being harmed. well, secure and private communications are more important than swimming pools, which causes more harm to children, so if you’re going to ban encryption, ban swimming pools first, you fucking hypocrites.
In the end faulty security always gives edge to the stronger and more malicious side.
So if you want to protect the weak and allow people to defend themselves, you’d want such mechanisms to not be rigged for any abstract noble goal, because otherwise you are going to get fucked very practically.
it just doesn’t make sense. are they asking tech companies to generate encryption keys server side, store them, and then send them over a network to and end user device? because that is not at all how encryption works. is there not one person in the cabinet that’s not a complete fucking dinosaur?