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easytiger | 7 months ago
A little naivety methinks. You should say rather
... the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil. ...should the bloggers not publish opinions contrary to the state and its current objectives.
easytiger | 7 months ago
A little naivety methinks. You should say rather
... the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil. ...should the bloggers not publish opinions contrary to the state and its current objectives.
hermitcrab|7 months ago
The previous and current UK government have also been steadily hacking away at UK citizen's right to peaceful protest. But I think that it is a different issue, and it doesn't help to conflate the two.
easytiger|7 months ago
I can't come close to agreeing. The same minister pushing this, who is by his own admission semi literate and can't understand very basic concepts, has basically no understanding of technology (or indeed expertise in any area), has made no secret of the fact this is about censoring online speech he personally does not like[1]. He is a paid up yes man deep in the pockets of companies selling low effort AI solutions to governments for the purposes of enforcing speech[2] who wants, all said and done, to shut down twitter/X because people express opinions there he doesn't like. This has almost literally nothing to do with the old fashioned pearl clutching "think of the children". So much so he's going around holding anyone with reasonable opposition to this bill for child sexual assault, future, past and present[3]. This is obvious overcompensatory zeal. And it is week one.
What he has not done is engage earnestly with legitimate concerns about privacy and the bill. And he never will.
[1] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-peter-ky... | https://archive.is/Snw7y
[2] https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/we-need-to-talk-about-s...
[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo
yawpitch|7 months ago
Hold my beer.