Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK

Many of these companies are increasingly fed up.

Their "tipping point" is UK regulation - and it's coming at them thick and fast.

The Online Safety Bill is due to pass in the autumn. Aimed at protecting children, it lays down strict rules around policing social media content, with high financial penalties and prison time for individual tech execs if the firms fail to comply.

One clause that has proved particularly controversial is a proposal that encrypted messages, which includes those sent on WhatsApp, can be read and handed over to law enforcement by the platforms they are sent on, if there is deemed to be a national security or child protection risk.

The NSPCC children's charity has described encrypted messaging apps as the "front line" of where child abuse images are shared, but it is also seen as an essential security tool for activists, journalists and politicians.

Currently messaging apps like WhatsApp, Proton and Signal, which offer this encryption, cannot see the content of these messages themselves.

WhatsApp and Signal have both threatened to quit the UK market over this demand.

The Digital Markets Bill is also making its way through Parliament. It proposes that the UK's competition watchdog selects large companies like Amazon and Microsoft, gives them rules to comply with and sets punishments if they don't.

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Well, what will these tech companies do when the socialist Democrats start enacting similar bills here in the States? Where will they run to in order to do business? I've always said that trends like these start in the UK, then hit Canada and the U.S., starting in states that include California and New York.

They want access to all information and not because of child porn. Also, I'm certain that they won't be exercising any legal control over this law. Why even bother to encrypt anymore? I use both proton and signal, but for how long? I give it three to five years before this trend hits our congress and we start seeing similar laws here.

get to an island and eat snails

seriously people have lost their fkn minds

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The Online Safety Bill is due to pass in the autumn. Aimed at protecting children, it lays down strict rules around policing social media content, with high financial penalties and prison time for individual tech execs if the firms fail to comply.

Because that's how they get authoritarian legislation through Parliament , protecting children due to the abdication of responsibility of parents who's job it really is , Big Mother will protect your kids so you don't have to.

As with the recent Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act the Online Safety Bill is another attack on our freedoms of speech and privacy with the use of VPNs also coming under scrutiny.

HMP Britain.

They are currently pursuing the censorship of "fake news" with policies in the Philippines involving the following social media companies (who are likely happy to comply).

The private sector participants include Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Threads), Google, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter).

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They will likely go down this same path as the UK is now by monitoring encrypted communications as described in this thread and drive out those companies as well. No place to electronically hide when the NWO completes this mission.