KB“The UK’s Online Safety Act was sold as a ‘world-leading’ child-protection law, one that would establish the UK tech sector as a global safety-tech powerhouse. Instead, it has normalized the idea that governments can bolt identity checks and surveillance layers onto the internet.”
By Heather Burns:
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that-caught-the-car-britains-world-leading-internet/
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The Dog that Caught the Car: Britain's 'World-Leading' Internet
Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading across the Atlantic, where politicians see a ready-made tool for censorship and control.