Can’t happen soon enough. However this is actually about control so any collateral damage is irrelevant
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How long until parliament decides to push the undo button on this stupid law?
ReCursing@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Well it is about control they have to at least maintain the illusion that it’s about child protection. They have to at least maintain the veneer of legitimacy. So if enough people make enough noise about how this is actually a privacy violating nightmare (even though that’s actually the point) they will have to pretend to be concerned about that.
Anyway they have an out, this is mostly a Tory policy anyway that just got implemented under labour, so if it becomes a noose around there necks they can just get rid of the unpopular Tory policy and now they’re the heroes.
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Who even uploads porn to imgur? There’s far better hosts for that…
ReCursing@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
It won’t even work as child protection, because horny teenagers gonna find a proxy or a vpn, or gonna find dodgy porn sites that don’t check your age
DrCake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t see them actually undoing it. It will just become a thing that is no longer enforced. Once one company stands up to it and refuses to pay the fine, and the uk can’t force them to pay, others will do it. Once enough do it the UK will stop trying (hopefully)
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
When it hurts them or their paymasters economically.