• jsdz@lemmy.ml
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    So they’ve decided that this part of the bill will be unenforceable and useless, but they plan to go ahead and pass it anyway. I suppose they’ll soon need to do the same for the age verification nonsense as well.

    They still want to impose these ill-conceived laws on us so as to appear to have done something, but the people who had somehow been convinced that this would do some good will be disappointed. If they stick with this course, they will soon have managed the impressive political feat of pleasing exactly nobody with the results of this excruciating years-long process of counterproductive legislating.

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      There are plenty pf laws out there that nobody cares about enough to try and enforce, but if you aggrevate the wrong people then suddenly you’re found in technical violation of them and they have rational to toy with your life. This would be one of the I expect.

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    This is a temporary reprieve rather than a victory. The wording of the bill hasn’t changed, they’ve simply added the statement that what they want to do isn’t technically possible yet but when it is, this’ll be revived.

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      That encryption can have a backdoor for “the good guys” to use but never the bad guys? I guess this is defeated then.

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    Yeah, let’s break encrypt!

    Not that it’s possible but it would be awesome no? That somebody can just read my passwords, access my bank accounts, read my private messages… You trust the government with those keys, Right?

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    Sure is strange how both the GOP & Tories have decided to go cartoon villain after their Russian money got cut off.

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      The tories have been villains since 2010. Plenty of Russian money still floating around there I’m sure.

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      Don’t forget about the Labour Party. They played a huge part creating and pushing for this bill.

      Edit: Apologies, I forgot that the Labour Party is the Red Tie Tories. Carry on.

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    This argument doesn’t add up. Apple had already built a CSAM scan system before shelving it and am pretty sure Google have one for Drive/Photos.