The UK's digital regulator will start enforcing the Online Safety Act from today; based on a previous statement. Companies have had three months to perform risk assessments.
Conservatives? The UK’s current government is not a conservative one.
Though I don’t think the political leaning of the party in power matters here, as this is what governments do in general. Find ways, and justifications, to expand the scope of their power, often by using “desiring safety for insert demographic here (usually children)” and managing to get it through. Often without thinking what future, potentially more tyrannical governments, might do with that power.
We can argue all day about how conservative I find the current UK government, which is more than you do apparently, but to be clear this was a general statement about things over the last decade (or 2 more accurately) being done, primarily by conservatives in both the UK and US, that affects technology they don’t understand.
Conservatives? The UK’s current government is not a conservative one.
Though I don’t think the political leaning of the party in power matters here, as this is what governments do in general. Find ways, and justifications, to expand the scope of their power, often by using “desiring safety for insert demographic here (usually children)” and managing to get it through. Often without thinking what future, potentially more tyrannical governments, might do with that power.
We can argue all day about how conservative I find the current UK government, which is more than you do apparently, but to be clear this was a general statement about things over the last decade (or 2 more accurately) being done, primarily by conservatives in both the UK and US, that affects technology they don’t understand.