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.
Y'know Microsoft said they're comfortable pulling out of the UK market over the activision-blizzard merger. They are kind of a backwater now, and it'll be very funny if the consequences of this is you just can no longer buy a smart phone in the UK... or use gmail.
in my experience of uk tech laws, it will be signed into law, and then never enforced
piracy has been explicitly illegal for decades, i have pirated without a vpn a shitload over the last 20+ years and never so much as had the strongly-worded form letterreactionary tendency is no match for basic incompetence
Tech giants are gonna threaten to leave and parliament will back off is my bet. Without the rest of the EU I don't think the UK market is large enough for parliament to pull off this move even as a formality.
Problem uk is not econmicly important and also in this era capitalists can just op out of countries especially when they become too difficult to deal with, also the fact you have to ask for a back door makes the point of the backdoor more pointless just try to do it secretly like the pros do it in the usa. This probly cause a gang terf war with the nsa and cia vs mi6
What a nice synergy with this plan. See you all in re-education
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