The government, however, has said the bill does not ban end-to-end encryption.

Instead it will require companies to take action to stop child abuse on their platforms and as a last resort develop technology to scan encrypted messages, it has said.

Tech companies have said scanning messages and end-to-end encryption are fundamentally incompatible.

Jesus Christ how staggeringly incompetent is the national government that no tech ceo can find a way to explain to them there is no way to govern content without having access to it via a known backdoor, which very plainly is to fundamentally break encryption.

Let's propose a bill that forces them to find a way to invent a flashable laser beam that scans for government corruption that happens behind closed doors, even private residences, and if they miss anything, the entire cabinet will be fined and must legally be fired before next election.

You see the bill doesn't make you responsible for all corruption in every back alley everywhere, only for not immediately detecting and stopping it before it takes hold, in any shape or form not currently possible.

Fucking morons. Don't we decide who is smart enough to be voted into government? These people are the best we can come up with? This what I think people mean when they say voting is pointless.

I think we’re now seeing what happens when the rich have too much control and people continue to let it happen.

People talk about free countries but is there any country left that isn’t working flat out on decimating peoples freedom at an alarming rate?

Free speech, Wage theft, the car you drive, the way people who don’t, or can’t work are alienated… even the way people vote are all used to divide people and make it easier to take away peoples freedoms!

It really is utterly disgusting whats going on but as we see in Wales, Labour is an even shittier, controlling party! 😞

now that the government separated the UK from the EU they should put propellers up their asses and push their pathetic island between russia and china if they wanna pass laws like that

Truly the UK is the worst nation.

• A Brit

I’m VPN’ing outa here 🤷‍♂️

Did they?

I feel like this is yet another don quixote versus the windmills thing.

SSL, TLS, SSH, just a few protocols that float the internet don't support any of the crap that the UK government wants, nor can they.

So either the entire world spends 10 years building a completely new internet based on new protocols that will be abused within 2 weeks, just because UK politicians are retarded, or.. well, I guess the UK will just have to cut their country off of the Internet, a brexit, if you will. I heard those work really well too.

It doesn't work like they want.

not my king

Coming soon to EU, probably.

https://edri.org/our-work/why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/

Hey, didn't I have 50.000 ony bank account? It's empty!

No, you logged in and transferred it all to some Russian account.

what do you mean I have child porn images in my files? I don't have those

Now you do after your ex working at obs put them there for you

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So so so so so many ways that this WILL be abused to death. Meanwhile actual criminals will continue using secure encryption protocols, good luck with that.

i praise the kids of great britain and the colonies for making uk leave the eu. may they have tea, biscuits, a broken economy and no privacy.

We really need some kind of FOSS encryption service that can't just be compromised like that.

🤔 Do you think they could force devs to fork over private keys to blockchains like Bitcoin?