I'm just hoping we suffer from our usual biggest export (incompetence) and none of this shit ever actually gets implemented. Likely a government body will need to regulate this, I think it mentioned ofcom. Thing is these regulatory bodies are basically run by one civil servant chained to a radiator and their backlogs are tremendous. They sure as hell wont fund regulatory bodies to actually enforce this.
Any off the shelf solution to do this will ofc be built by our infinitely useless white collar plebs (me included) who's job title is "evading producing anything and going to the pub for lunch and never coming back" so the software would be non functioning at best and easy to exploit or work around because it'll be made by a bunch of posh twats who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag and spend their entire lives in meetings writing long winded descriptions into tickets they never complete (me included)
The issue is that Ofcom has already been completely captured by the government, in a way that not even the awful BBC has been fully. They already only act against the government's enemies and do nothing on ironclad cases that oppose the government's interests. This has been a growing problem for a decade, but is neatly demonstrated by this parlimentary committee hearing a few weeks ago. I'd suggest that Ofcom will continue to be inept when it's in the government's interests and surprisingly swift and capable when it's in the government's interests.
I agree more on the tech sector stuff, but that's assuming they don't just contract it from Israel or the some NSA cut out contractor.
I'm just hoping we suffer from our usual biggest export (incompetence) and none of this shit ever actually gets implemented. Likely a government body will need to regulate this, I think it mentioned ofcom. Thing is these regulatory bodies are basically run by one civil servant chained to a radiator and their backlogs are tremendous. They sure as hell wont fund regulatory bodies to actually enforce this.
Any off the shelf solution to do this will ofc be built by our infinitely useless white collar plebs (me included) who's job title is "evading producing anything and going to the pub for lunch and never coming back" so the software would be non functioning at best and easy to exploit or work around because it'll be made by a bunch of posh twats who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag and spend their entire lives in meetings writing long winded descriptions into tickets they never complete (me included)
The issue is that Ofcom has already been completely captured by the government, in a way that not even the awful BBC has been fully. They already only act against the government's enemies and do nothing on ironclad cases that oppose the government's interests. This has been a growing problem for a decade, but is neatly demonstrated by this parlimentary committee hearing a few weeks ago. I'd suggest that Ofcom will continue to be inept when it's in the government's interests and surprisingly swift and capable when it's in the government's interests.
I agree more on the tech sector stuff, but that's assuming they don't just contract it from Israel or the some NSA cut out contractor.
This is likely the case. The UK is scarily good at weaponising incompetence then putting all their energy into truly heinous shit.