If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

maybe then they would not have:

• forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
• forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
• given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
• reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
• reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
• pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

absolute roasters the lot of them