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>>ANewbu+(OP)
I don't think these laws are being made with the will of the people.

There's been no groundswell of opinion, no technically minded authority pushing expert opinion.

The same people lobbying for the online safety act were pushing age verification tools. The government is exceptionally unpopular, even by the standards of already deeply unpopular governments in recent years.

I despair of the situation in the UK. How have we ended up here?

>>cs02rm+lp2
Over the years the amount of safety and speech issues that have cropped up have accumulated into a force. The OSA and DSA were announced years in advance, with multiple opportunities for feedback and analysis (I looked into the outcomes at various points but never contributed)

I would say there has been a groundswell of opinion, it’s not something that is covered here on HN much.