Oh, I'm seeing some mainstream coverage of the Internet Safety Bill and they're saying things like "It's a step forwards" and "We have to make young people safe" and "The internet is an addiction" and "children need to be protected by this bill" and "this bill will make the online world safer"

They have found space for nobody saying anything bad about this bill at all.

What a load of blatant crazy people talking crazy stuff.

The bill is a terrible awful law which will do nothing to protect anyone while being onerous on service providers. It it unenforceable,  poorly defined, will drive internet business outside the UK where we have less control of it, and will expose people to more dangers online.

If you use the internet from the UK you better be prepared to be more spied upon by business and stalked by the state than ever before. Maybe get your ID out every time you wanna leave Facebook.

If you run an internet business in the UK you better be prepared to move abroad. Though not to the US or the EU, they have similar terrible awful plans.

But you would not get that impression watching the BBC this morning at all. 

 @1d7ca1eb they have trotted the same stuff out for over a decade now always hoping to sneak it by and they keep trying, i guess they arent going to stop till they finally break encryption everywhere. good job fuckwits. the argument to do it always involves children, and never involves the fundamentals of encryption and privacy so if you argue against it you are "against kids safety". i would vote against this but thats impossible illustrating exactly how pointless the "choice" of "democracy" is.