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Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by webdoodle@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JoKi@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ how staggeringly incompetent is the national government that no tech ceo can find a way to explain to them there is no way to govern content without having access to it via a backdoor, which is to fundamentally break encryption.

Pretty sure they know that it's not possible without breaking encryption. They just want to blame the tech companies because their bill 'doesn't demand it'.

[–] DocBlaze@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

yeah, exactly. and therefore reinforcing my viewpoint that politicians are the the lowest layer of tarred scum pasted to the bottom of Mariana's trench. willing to destroy something as important as encryption, while still wanting to find a way to word it to the gullible public so that they can weasel out of the responsibility, and blame the people who did a good thing by providing encryption services to the vulnerable masses, for causing child abuse and other things that are terrible yet unrelated to the encryption issue.