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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even the most tech illiterate person should have realized that when Wikipedia said that the law would affect them. It was clear from the start the goal was not “kids”, but just another power grab.

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The people of the UK are heroes to us EU people, they try out all of the bold ideas that are sometimes floated around here, and show us all just how stupid they are. Let’s hope that this will convince enough people here that privacy is, in fact, a very delicate thing and that maybe they should actually listen to all of the technical people sounding the alarm when another overreaching regulation is proposed.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unless there is enormous backlash this will move forward in the EU too. France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece to test age verification app to “protect children” in the EU and it’s run as a framework for the whole EU.

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