House of Lords has defeated Government again on Online Safety. Rejecting new Henry VIII powers to ban sites. Insisting on an under 16 ban for social media. Also dropping requirement to age gate VPNs 🎉. Final twist Kidron has proposed a new raft of amendments that create quite radical changes to the Online Safety Act. I guess in hope Government goes for them in ping pong. #Parliament #onlinesafety #VPN
@JamesBaker This feels like a competition between the two Houses for the most ill-thought-out ideas.
@dash I find myself wondering often which of the ideas that won’t work are the least bad. It’s very frustrating that there is such a chasm between people who want safety and those that understand what might work technically to actually achieve that without causing different harms.