UK's Online Safety Bill finally passed by parliament
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Britain's long-awaited Online Safety Bill setting tougher standards for social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok has been agreed by parliament and will soon become law, the government said on Tuesday.
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And something as bad (if not worse) is coming to the EU too https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Jesus christ. Thanks for sharing, I had no idea about this.

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This is by design; they’ve been very quiet about this. It’s going to pass, and once it does I doubt it’ll only be used for scanning for CSAM

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