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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
And how has Australia ended up in a similar situation[1] - coming this December?

My guess is that the common factor is News Corporation pushing an agenda on behalf of the very, very wealthy.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/1nu68je...

>>naruho+7q2
In a vacuum, the policy had really high opinion polling.

In reality, the technical implementation will undoubtedly be a privacy and surveillance disaster.

In a vacuum, people thought "social media" meant "Instagram and TicToc and Facebook etc."

In reality, the eSafety commissioner thinks "social media" includes platforms like GitHub. Yes, really.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/digital-dilemna-socia...