The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law

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The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
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Do want to point out the UK act is such a unworkable mess that it is likely to collapse under its own weight just look at the last UK age verification law that was delayed over and over again until it was quietly scraped. And it's likely Ofcom will struggle to get the OSB up and running

At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

I assume that once they try to go after one of the "big ones", geoblocking the UK will happen at a larger scale. Just imagine a country being geoblocked by Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

"Dear UK citizen, due to stupid and malign laws enactet by the Tory party of your country, (Google|Twitter|Facebook|Wikipedia|other) will not be available in the UK for the forseeable future."