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>>buro9+(OP)
The whole government page at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c... has an off-putting and threatening tone, celebrating how wonderful it is that online spaces will be tied in bureaucratic knots. Disgraceful.

>>baggy_+X8
The hacker in me is real grumpy about all this, and believes that they’re nannying a whole lot of the dumb superficial stuff while pushing serious malfeasance underground.

But they make a good point: if you exclude the smaller providers, that’s where the drugs and CSAM and the freewheeling dialog go. Assuming it’s their policy goal to deter these categories of speech, I’m not sure how you do that without a net fine enough to scoop up the 4chans of the world too.

It’s not the behavior of a confident, open, healthy society, though…

>>alwa+nh
As a quick cheatsheet, laws targeting CSAM are always just tools to go after other things.

CSAM is absolutely horrible.. but CSAM laws don't stop CSAM (primarily this happens from group defections).

Instead it's just a form of tarring, in this case unliked speech, by associating it with the most horrible thing anyone can think of.