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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)

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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users::The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the...

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sounds like something they'd do.

[–] spearz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t worry about this too much. Today they announced they’re no longer implementing a bunch of things they just made up, like forcing people to car share, and something about demanding people to use a minimum of seven bins…

Tomorrow they will probably state that they’re banning lemons, or insisting that people are only allowed to talk with a French accent when ordering pastries.