RagingNerdoholic

How many major and ubiquitous communication companies are HQ'd in the UK?

Will more sciencey science finally convince those who don't believe science? The answer will shock you!

Spoiler alert: actually, it won't.

Tories really trying to cause as much harm as possible before they get voted out so they can blame the next party for mismanaging their mistakes.

That's the conservative M.O. It's literally the only thing they do.

You're probably right, but the problem is the political precident that's set. Once a major western government codifies this into law, it becomes a little bit easier and more self-justifiable for other world governments to follow suit.

Every relevant player here needs to be swift and unequivocal about pulling out of the UK if this becomes law. It's needs to result in a PR disaster and loss of power for the UK government so the world can see what bafoons they are and no one else dares to make the same ill-fated attempt.

The tech industry has an ethical responsibility to unequivocally reject this.

True, but cryptographers are already working it.

I'm thinking the relevant service providers are going back out of the UK rather than put in a backdoor for them.

Have a fun 16 and a half-ish years

Eight whole percent. I can hear their boots shaking now /s

Go with the Bernie plan. Anything over $1B is taxed at 100%. Shit, I think even that is too soft. Nobody needs even a fraction of that to for themselves and their children's children's children's ... to live like kings their entire lives.

Also, it's always hilarious how American politicians are so obsessed with overly on-the-nose acronyms for legislation.

I didn't read through the entire spec, but I read enough to sniff out their Trojan horseshit. I'm not regurgitating anything, I'm calling it as I see it.

This is of benefit to no one but for corporate overlords to do more overlording. It's fixing a problem that doesn't exist.

I don't know why you're trying to hard to defend one the biggest corporations on earth that decidedly not-not-evil, but if I ever need a top notch recipe for robust leather footwear, I'll be sure to call you up.

Read between the lines, dude. Ad blockers work by observing and analyzing the DOM for elements presenting or containing ads and subsequently removing or obscuring those elements by manipulating the DOM. There's no way for WEI to carry out its purported goals without forcibly preventing DOM manipulation.

There are absolutely no conceivable benefits for users. None.

That's the "endless and very dangerous" part.

Why does your cat look like a cross between an old man and a kangaroo