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Is there any living person that thinks the UK people want ChatControl? No? Me neither.


With 69% of people supporting the Online Safety Act [1] I'm confident there are people in the UK that would also support Chat Control

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...


Sure, when you frame the question as, "do you support these measures to ensure children don't have access to pornography?", of course people are going to support it.

Present evidence that the new laws will be a danger to their fundamental rights and maybe you won't get quite as much support.

Also, that survey shows that there's broad support even though the same people don't believe the new laws will be effective. So... that's pretty stupid.


It depends on how you word the survey. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA (Yes Minster: the unofficial video on-boarding course for UK bureaucrats)


In the meantime we get VPN adverts in the tube.


Didn’t the surveys indicate a brexit as a pretty big regret once people understood what it meant?


If the UK no longer has democracy then that is not something the EU can fix by giving UK chat control.




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