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8/3/2025, 10:00:37 PM
Heather Burns, a tech policy specialist and author of Understanding Privacy, told The National the UK Government and Ofcom had been on a “full-scale media blitz … really hammering down on the lines that this is about children and it's about pornography”.
However, she said: “It's not. It applies to any service provider anywhere in the world whose services could theoretically be accessed in Britain. It applies to a bare minimum of, the last figure I saw was 60,000 companies.
“What we're seeing over the past week is six years of narratives collapsing into reality in real time.”
“I was actually in a meeting with the [UK Government in 2020] where I was called a paedo for trying to point out these issues to them,” Burns said.
“You go back to the office and talk about it and everyone gives you a round of applause and says, ‘You're in the club now. You're not up in the club until you've been called a paedo’.”
Labour, which has taken over defending the Tory-introduced act, has used similar rhetoric against Nigel Farage by raising the spectre of Jimmy Savile after his Reform UK called for the legislation to be repealed.
However, she said: “It's not. It applies to any service provider anywhere in the world whose services could theoretically be accessed in Britain. It applies to a bare minimum of, the last figure I saw was 60,000 companies.
“What we're seeing over the past week is six years of narratives collapsing into reality in real time.”
“I was actually in a meeting with the [UK Government in 2020] where I was called a paedo for trying to point out these issues to them,” Burns said.
“You go back to the office and talk about it and everyone gives you a round of applause and says, ‘You're in the club now. You're not up in the club until you've been called a paedo’.”
Labour, which has taken over defending the Tory-introduced act, has used similar rhetoric against Nigel Farage by raising the spectre of Jimmy Savile after his Reform UK called for the legislation to be repealed.
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