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dofmtoday at 2:06 PM1 replyview on HN

The Online Safety Act has broad support from the people of the UK from the left and right combined.

Nobody is stopping anyone protesting against it, but it is not imposed by some imaginary uniparty fascist regime, it is something people want.


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hn_submittoday at 3:15 PM

Most Brits have no idea what's in the Online Safety Act since it expressly mandates the neutering of end-to-end encryption in messaging apps.

And protesting is very difficult when everyone doing so is branded a child molester.

Britain isn't a true democracy. Neither is Australia. They're Orwellian societies where the populace has been trained to believe that "the government knows best."

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