No working-class citizen is advocating for this.
Also, has the UK prosecuted Prince Andrew for raping those kids?
It’d be a good idea to read the article before complaining about this being another instance of Labour authoritarianism (of which there are admittedly already too many). This was a Lords revolt against the Labour position of not banning VPNs for under-18s.
It now goes to the Commons, where Labour has a large majority, and where it will almost certainly be decisively defeated.
What the fuck even is the lords!?
A second parliamentary chamber whose members are not elected but instead get their seats by being nominated for life for one by a sitting government or inheriting it.
The UK citizen’s cuck part of the government.
It’s the upper house of parliament.
I love the juxtaposition of the ads and the content of the article (on work laptop which manages the browser & controls extensions before anyone chimes in about adblockers)
its to control dissent against conservative govt, nothing to do with protecting children or dealing with porn.
Since they broke off from the EU it seems they floated all the way to China.
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant before Brexit and I can tell you that they were already well on their way before that.
Just go have a look at the Stasi-like civil society done in the UK as shown by the Snowden Revelations: it was actually worse than the US and, unlike in the US, none of it was rolled-back in the UK and instead new laws were passed to make the whole thing retroactivelly legal.
This is far from the only way in which Britain hasn’t really been a proper Democratic nation for quite a while (for example, did you know they have a Press Censorship system called “D-Notices” or that there is not right to legal counsel when interrogated at a border crossing?).
Brexit was not the cause of Britain’s increased authoritarianism, it was a consequence of it (though indirectly, due to things like Press ownership concentration, the BBC to quite an extend a Propaganda outlet for the party in government and the pain of the Austerity that was chosen in the aftermath of of the 2008 Crash as a way to pay for the costs of saving the wealth of the rich and the bonuses of bankers).
It’s just that unlike in places like the US or Hungary, the culture of the elites gives a huge importance to “keeping appearences” (hence the “English gentleman” stereotype, which at least nowadays is all about how one presents oneself and not at all about morals, ethics or honor) so you get a posh kind of Fascist rather than the raging strongman populist style of fascist you get in other countries. Also Britain is far more likely to hide the use of force for oppression with “It’s the Law” and “Proper procedure” than the others - again a form of managing appearances.
What I still can’t believe is that there are positions in UK that is House of Lords and House of Commons.
Like you plebs can meet over there, and us lords will do whatever here, don’t mind us.
Anyway, UK has been always super dystopian, so nothing new here I guess.
Can they not simply instruct UK ISPs to block connectivity to TOR, etc? Not a power user so likely missing something.
No, they can’t.
Isn’t this part of the same amendment that will make government spyware mandatory on all devices? So does that mean that part passed as well? VPNs are not the most concerning part here yet that’s the only bit that seems to be getting reported
The “CSAM requirement” is that any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device
So that means mandatory spyware and effectively makes alternative OS’s/unlocked bootloaders illegal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
As always, Stallman was right.
tamper proof system software
Lol, tell me you’re an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers without telling me that you are an ancient idiot with zero understanding of computers
So that doesn’t exist and is basically pretty much impossible
Then, how about Linux? That goes exactly against the point of why Linux exists in the first place.
So no more Linux computers then? No more Linux servers, then? No more IoT devices?
That rule is bizarrely dumb. Not just bad, just dumb dumb dumb.
So in other words, a perfect law to come from the UK government!
The operating system is not the only way of spying, there is already firmware on your device running without your permission, pretty much impossible to see what code its running, and requires expert level knowledge to disable (or tamper with :)) if a third-party firmware implementation that allows disabling the IME doesn’t support your device.
Most phones today also just have a non-unlockable bootloader with a spyware Android skin installed. Locking something down to this level is not really impossible.
They’ll get a surprise when they realize they just made every server in the UK illegal and stopped the economy. But perhaps “relevant devices” are only those owned by the plebs.
It’ll be all about selective enforcement against the usual suspects.
Even if they only targeted the plebs, it will completely tank the economy. One of the problems is that they will singlehandedly reduce the capacity of techies and engineers within this country.
New technical people will be hard to come by as there is no means/tools to pursue that passion, other than spending heaps of money.
Tor browser it is
Honestly this Is 100% a silver lining, as more governments crack down on freedom tor and I2P will get more users, more development, better features, and more services and tools available through them. This is a win in this small area.
- TOR
- Just getting vps hosting and installing wireguard on it.
- I2P
- Yggdrasil
- AmneziaWG
We got this fam
Don’t forget I2P
Are labour doing a speedrun to give reform the next government?
They’re giving Reform tools that will be used even more oppressively by Reform than by Labour.
No free access to information or private conversations. That could cause issues for the people in power.
This will be used against the citizenry.
Someone tell them 1984 wasn’t a manual.
Who knew that real-life Big Brother would turn out to be as dreary and limp as Keir Starmer?
When have Brit fascist knobheads ever been anything but dull wet blankets?
Some of them are frog-faced loudmouth wankers.
Badenoch promises an immidate ban for under 16s… Wow!
How exactly?
Ah right, tory magic
