“Very bad laws are still laws. The Tories are about to pass one that will make the damage caused by Brexit seem like a fart in a hurricane: the online safety bill. It will ruin your experience of the internet. Guaranteed.”
@danyork@rgarner only suggestion I've got at this point is that we all write to our MPs. I've been doing so - whether it'll make any difference, who knows, but given we're not allowed to protest any more it's probably the only option left...
@danyork If true, one of the scariest statements in that article was "One of their key luminaries at an earlier stage of the process was Nadine Dorries."
I don't think I've seen "luminaries" and "Nadine Forties" in the same sentence before.
@danyork seems to be a lot of FAFO going around. Comparable to the Canadians who have permanent surprised pikachu face when the companies who said, no, paying to link to someone else’s site is stupid and we won’t do it, blocked links to Canadian news sites exactly like they said they would.
I’m all in favor of holding big social media to account for the garbage they refuse to moderate, but this doesn’t seem like a good way to do it. (And banning secure encryption is of course absolutely crazypants.)
This is a very bad law and if the UK gets away with it, every major country will attempt it too. It will kill the internet, private messaging, and privacy in general.
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