UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible
UK passes "online safety" bill making end-to-end encryption impossible
Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill setting tougher standards for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok has been agreed by parliament and will soon become law, the government said on Tuesday.
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Will this lead to companies ditching E2EE?
Unlikely; more likely it will lead to UK politicians finding out that, like Russia, the UK isn’t as big a deal internationally as they assume it is at home.
To take a recent example, Microsoft considered just completely leaving the UK gaming console market if it fully blocked the buyout of blizzard activision, as it already won elsewhere and had good trial against the FTC in the U.S.
Big corporations threaten shit all the time and then they do a complete 180 two weeks later. Take any "threat" from a corporation with 5 metric tons of salt. They'll all whatever PR statement they think will generate the most shot term buzz.