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>entire point of online safety bill was supposedly to go after facebook et al
>instead the legislation is so wide-reaching that ofcom is going after every open forum threatening them with a fine thats a thousand times most of their annual revenues.
That's the problem with hasty legislation introduced by a minister that's heading up a reshuffle branch of government taking on duties from 3 other departments, about to go on maternity leave and is on the third prime minister in the 5 year term because Boris sure needed to get Brexit done and that Corbyn fella couldn't be trusted to send us to mutually assured destruction.
Almost all legislation that was passed from 2019 - 2024 is complete and utter garbage.
We kind of forget just how bad reshuffle syndrome got under the conservatives, whether it was a reshuffle under Boris, a minister resigning, another reshuffle, a rebellion, iceberg or one of the 3 to 4 shuffles Sunak's government had there was absolutely no way that any piece of legislation going through was going to be acceptable.
As a conservative minister said after the Truss era, people used to vote conservative because while they wouldn't always act in your best interests they were supposed to be competent, without the competence what are they? This was later repurposed by Mel Stride the Work & Pensions minister (now shadow chancellor) in his own leadership campaign, that they'd lost their competence.
As for the bills, everything would just go to the lords, get bounced back and forth endlessly until they whipped the peers into passing and anything that got through looks like this, a broad policy with more holes in it than swiss cheese.
There was supposed to be an online verification scheme set up by now when the conservatives passed it, you were supposed to be able to buy a pass in the shops verifying you were old enough and then use that online to verify with sites that complied with the legislation.
but the legislation is mental.
