cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/153506
The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There’s still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.
At this point they should just try to ban Math because that’s what they’re essentially trying to accomplish fucking morons man
The state of Indiana once almost passed a bill that would’ve legally defined the mathematical constant of pi to be 3.2.